IF THEY COULD SEE IT, THEY’D HATE IT, TOO: Trump Is Building a New American Order in the Western Hemisphere. The Media Is Too Busy Hating Him to See It.
The [stakes] grew more serious as we approached 2026. In December, the White House had already added its “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine, which is like the original Monroe Doctrine except that this time we really mean it. On January 3rd, US forces snatched Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, and Trump announced that “ Under our new National Security Strategy, American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again.”
On January 25th, State slapped visa bans on members of Haiti’s unelected ruling council “for supporting gangs and other criminal organizations,” which is a sentence you would not expect to read about a sovereign government. On February 3rd, a US Navy destroyer and two Coast Guard cutters parked in Port-au-Prince Bay, “at the direction of the Secretary of War,” which in hemispheric etiquette is the equivalent of pulling into someone’s driveway, leaving the engine running, and watching them from the car.
Four days later, the unelected council’s mandate suddenly “expired,” and the US immediately backed Prime Minister Fils-Aimé as Haiti’s sole leader.
Much more at the link, but it did remind me to go back and find a lost browser tab from early this morning:
I think Trump is trying to conduct a last ditch effort to pry Russia away from China because he sees the war over Taiwan as inevitable.
Not sure if he factored in the North Korean question though, as they’ll likely take the Taiwan opportunity to reunify Korea with China’s help,… https://t.co/bBwKmbeHsW
— Unfiltered Artist (@EmpireEnjoyer3) October 29, 2026
The Trump Doctrine is loud and clear — this Russia hypothesis isn’t much more than conjecture.
But I do know I’d rather have a strong Russia part of the West (assuming that still means anything), than a weak Russia increasingly dependent on and beholden to China.