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"After the United States government celebrated the capture of Nicolás Maduro in
Venezuela, President Donald Trump issued warnings about what might come next.
“Something will have to be done about Mexico,” he said. “American dominance in
the Western hemisphere will never be questioned again.”
The US government has subsequently pushed for US forces to accompany their
Mexican counterparts in operations targeting fentanyl production. But the
history of US military intervention in Mexico makes the presence of foreign
troops, under any pretext, politically untenable.
The arrival of US troops in the past has signalled political instability,
suffering for ordinary people, and in the most extreme case, massive loss of
territory. Before the one-sided Mexican-American war of 1846–48, most of what
is today the states of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico had
been part of the newly independent Mexican republic.
The second Trump government’s realignment of security policies includes an
aggressive reboot of the 19th-century “Monroe Doctrine”, which projected
influence across the western hemisphere. Trump likes to call the updated
version the “Donroe Doctrine”, and it dispenses with any pretense of
hemispheric solidarity.
The embrace of this doctrine has people and governments throughout the western
hemisphere on edge. Even during so-called isolationist periods in US history,
parts of Latin America have faced frequent US military interventions."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
