Calling it the “Donroe Doctrine” is funny right up until you realize it is a doctrine: a hemispheric order where the U.S. expands “exceptions” until the exception becomes the rule—migrants first, then whole countries. The Venezuela raid and Maduro’s forced rendition weren’t just about one dictator; they were a proof-of-concept for a disciplinary regime that’s openly transactional and punitive. And now it’s metastasizing in plain sight: Trump floats a Colombia operation (“sounds good to me”) while publicly sizing up Cuba as a “failing nation.” When interventionism isn’t even dressed up as “defending democracy,” every government in the region has to plan for a new normal—force first, legalities later, and “economic objectives” humming underneath. That’s not restoring order. It’s turning the hemisphere into a geopolitical Wild West—with Washington holding both the badge and the bolt cutters.
I am sick with shame over all my country’s greedy, unlawful, despicable actions. We WILL GET RID OF THIS SICK ADMINISTRATION. Judy Lotas, Duck, NC, USA.
Calling it the “Donroe Doctrine” is funny right up until you realize it is a doctrine: a hemispheric order where the U.S. expands “exceptions” until the exception becomes the rule—migrants first, then whole countries. The Venezuela raid and Maduro’s forced rendition weren’t just about one dictator; they were a proof-of-concept for a disciplinary regime that’s openly transactional and punitive. And now it’s metastasizing in plain sight: Trump floats a Colombia operation (“sounds good to me”) while publicly sizing up Cuba as a “failing nation.” When interventionism isn’t even dressed up as “defending democracy,” every government in the region has to plan for a new normal—force first, legalities later, and “economic objectives” humming underneath. That’s not restoring order. It’s turning the hemisphere into a geopolitical Wild West—with Washington holding both the badge and the bolt cutters.
I am sick with shame over all my country’s greedy, unlawful, despicable actions. We WILL GET RID OF THIS SICK ADMINISTRATION. Judy Lotas, Duck, NC, USA.