Tharoor: Year of ‘Donroe Doctrine’

Ishaan Tharoor: “This isn’t about supporting democracy, free markets, or tying together the region in a network of free trade agreements,” Sabatini told me. “It’s about ownership — very much similar ways to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin views his near abroad.”

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“He has imported some of pathologies of the war on terror to the United States’ own hemisphere,” Wertheim said. “Trump’s brutal deportation policies, blatant election meddling, lawless boat strikes and creeping regime-change moves against Venezuela amount to a new, highly coercive and militarized approach to the Americas.”…