Historians’ rankings of America’s best and worst foreign-policy decisions show the U.S. succeeded when it led cooperatively through multilateral institutions and failed when it turned inward or went rogue. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/02/02/world/best-and-worst-us-foreign-policy-decisions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #marshallplan #nato #un #brettonwoods #worldbank #imf #gatt #wto #treatyofversailles #parisagreement #monroedoctrine #donroedoctrine #iraqinvasion #donaldtrump
"There are two possibilities that offer better explanations of the US’s criminal action: oil and power. Petroleum has been widely cited as the key reason, and Trump himself has acknowledged this. There seem to be two plausible aspects to this."
From my new Venezuela article.
I conquer, therefore I am – the United States intervention in Venezuela
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/news/world/i-conquer-therefore-i-am-the-united-states-intervention-in-venezuela/
"The meaning of the Venezuela intervention [in addition to the dual oil agenda], then, is to demonstrate, and enact, supreme dominance of the US regime and US capital....
"Trump represents a return to an undisguised imperialism, captured in the aphorism I conquer, therefore I am, as Descartes should really have said."
#USImperialism #oil #MonroeDoctrine #Venezuela
The U.S. seizure of Venezuela’s leader shows that Washington is not retreating into a tidy world of spheres of influence but is instead using raw power to challenge rivals and weaken the rules-based order. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/01/13/world/us-sphere-of-influence-is-big/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #venezuela #nicolasmaduro #us #russia #china #taiwan #ukraine #donroedoctrine #monroedoctrine #vladimirputin #latinamerica
Trump’s Caribbean armada isn’t diplomacy but dominance, reviving a century-old American Monroe doctrine, by Tim Marshall (19 Nov 2025)
Monroe Doctrine. "In 1823, President James Monroe made it clear that Washington regarded Latin America as within its sphere of influence.
If outside powers interfered in its backyard, then the US would intervene, with or without the consent of local governments. In 1904, a bullish President Theodore Roosevelt extended the doctrine, stating that it ‘may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.’
The Doctrine was invoked several times, including in 1962 and during other attempts by Moscow to create pro-Soviet regimes in Central and South America. Russian influence almost collapsed at the end of the Cold War but has been rising slowly this century, as has that of China."
This excellent piece, written a few weeks ago, explains what we saw yesterday.
https://geographical.co.uk/news/tim-marshall-on-the-americas-power-play-in-the-caribbean
Il #2dicembre 1823 il presidente degli Stati Uniti d'America #JamesMonroe proclamò, nel discorso oggi noto come #dottrinaMonroe, il principio dell'indipendenza degli Stati Uniti dai paesi europei e la sua supremazia nelle due Americhe.
La rivista #NAD nel vol. 7 n. 1 del 2025 dedica una sezione speciale alla Dottrina Monroe.
Qui in #OpenAccess:
⬇️ https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/NAD/issue/view/2622?mtm_campaign=mastodon
