🧵 It's important for President Trump to restore the two-century-old Monroe Doctrine, which the neocons abandoned & the Left renounced.
He should update & adapt the Monroe Doctrine, modernizing it with a Trump Corollary to guide strategic thinking and action in our hemisphere.
In his first term, President Trump pledged to "reject the interference of foreign nations in this hemisphere and in our own affairs" - nations like Russia, Iran, and China - but the State Department didn't get far.
Things just got worse.
centerforsecuritypolicy.org/how-president-…
The Monroe Doctrine was not a blueprint for American military interventionism.
It was a defensive doctrine of the last of the presidential founding fathers. It avoided entangling alliances and exercised strategic restraint.
The Monroe Doctrine built in part on Washington's Farewell Address to avoid entangling alliances overseas.
It was designed to keep foreign empires from reasserting themselves in our hemisphere & to help new republics stay sovereign and free of external control.
The Monroe Doctrine rejected the imperial trading system of mercantilism. Back then, the great mercantilist empires were European, but it applies to Communist China today, with its Belt and Road Neo-mercantilist structures.
Revisionist histories confuse the Monroe Doctrine with American military intervention of the 20th century. Marxist "historians" warped it into American imperialism. @ClaremontInst
The Monroe Doctrine was (and is) to keep foreign empires out of the Americas, while letting those empires squabble among themselves on their own turf.
It was all about protecting the sovereignty of the American republics as a means of defending the United States. Not "defending democracy."
@ClaremontInst The year the Obama administration declared that "the era of the Monroe Doctrine is over," the Chinese Communist Party invaded the hemisphere with its own mercantilist system.
America needs a Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine to address this. centerforsecuritypolicy.org/trump-corollar…
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