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The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed

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285 points ridruejo | 1 comments | 11 Nov 25 14:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.248s | source
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tehjoker ◴[11 Nov 25 23:17 UTC] No.45894250[source]▶
We don’t need more weapons. We also don’t have real adversaries, that’s war propaganda.
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tomrod ◴[11 Nov 25 23:29 UTC] No.45894345[source]▶
Looks like they want to add parts of South America to the hegemony, for reasons unknown.
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gottorf ◴[12 Nov 25 00:13 UTC] No.45894708[source]▶
The Monroe Doctrine goes back 200 years; the reasons are quite well known.
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1. HeinzStuckeIt ◴[12 Nov 25 01:00 UTC] No.45895146[source]▶
The Monroe Doctrine was about preventing monarchies from operating in the Americas in a time when the United States was heady with its eighteenth-century democratic framework. The USA was preindustrial, trade was much simpler, and there was an honest belief among political elites that American democracy was uniquely good and a flame worthy of spreading.

While the Monroe Doctrine persists, I think the actual reasons for it changed drastically by the twentieth century, when preventing foreign expansion in the Americas was so blatantly about protecting American economic interests, democracy in those countries be damned. And today geopolitical doctrine makes the other superpowers adversaries regardless of what political system they espouse.