The Monroe vs. Donroe Doctrine. I'll give you the key to knowing Trump's madness

Donald Trump is going crazy. 1 day, he knocks down Venezuelan president, the next, he makes threats to another countries, the Western Hemisphere talks like an American sphere of influence. Monroe's doctrine is simply a large deal, but we've outdone her. Now we call it Donroe's doctrine – he heard the world. These 2 passwords are key. possibly they'll at least let you realize what Trump is all about.


After intervening in Venezuela, the president of the United States is in his element. He cites 19th century doctrine and threatens another countries. Colombia, Mexico, Cuba – now they should be afraid. Trump thunders about stopping drug smuggling, about fighting organized crime, about US interests. Colombia says it's a sick country. About Mexico, that he had to pull himself together. And the Cuba government "looks ready to fall".

The planet listens, grabs its head and is full of fear. Meanwhile, Trump like you and the ruler announces: – According to our fresh National safety Strategy, American dominance in the Western hemisphere will never be questioned again.

Also the U.S. State Department further heats the emotions on X, writing, "THAT OUR POOKLE".

Crazy. Historically, however, 1 can effort to realize this narrative. Monroe's 19th-century doctrine is being changed present by all cases. The media dominates, it's virtually everywhere. In fact, Trump himself claims to be referring to her and even overtaken her.

Thus, we can effort to realize what he means and why he considers the Western Hemisphere to be his. And then effort to realize the version of "Monroe 2.0" – the doctrine of Donroe, as it has already been called. A contemporary, tougher than its original, in Trump's work.

So let's go back in time first. due to the fact that without Trump, he's forcing us to do it. What was the reality then?

Monroe's Doctrine, or Europo, Stay distant From Both Americas

It is the beginning of the 19th century. Spain prevails in most countries of the region. Its colonies in South America are Venezuela, Colombia (then fresh Granada), Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia ( advanced Peru), Chile, Argentina (Rio de la Plata), Paraguay and Uruguay.

And in Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

It's a hard time for Spaniards. In 1810, colonies start to rebel, fight for independence. Weakened by Napoleonic wars, Spain asks European powers for help, but does not receive support. Eventually, most South American countries gain independency from 1810 to 1825.

They are the closest neighbours of the United States – a young and yet weak state. Americans realize that they do not want any European forces and no abroad intervention in their part of the world. They fear the return of European powers to Latin America and the redominance of Spain.

In specified realities, Monroe's doctrine appears on December 2, 1823.

President James Monroe, in an yearly address to Congress, warned the European powers not to interfere in matters of the Western hemisphere.

In general, the main meaning of Monroe's doctrine was: Europo, stay distant from both Americas.

This was a warning.

Then the Americans referred to Monroe's doctrine

Monroe's doctrine is – let's quote American archives – the best-known US policy towards the Western Hemisphere.

"She warned European states that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or the regulation of puppet monarchs. The doctrine was created to address the main concerns of the time, but it shortly became the guiding subject of US policy towards the Western Hemisphere. According to Monroe, European powers were obliged to respect the Western hemisphere as a sphere of interest of the United States," we read.

The American authorities have referred to this doctrine more diplomatically and symbolically.

For the first time in 1865, exerting diplomatic force on Mexico – after France, with the support of Spain and the United Kingdom, sent troops there to place Emperor Maximilian Habsburg, Austrian Archduke, brother of Francis Joseph I, on the Mexican throne.

The U.S. then supported the legally elected Mexican president Benito Juárez. Maximilian was yet overthrown, executed, and his body was sent to Vienna.

The Americans one more time invoked doctrine in the early 20th century, in the days of Theodore Roosevelt's presidency – this time to justify American interference in Latin America and to halt European powers from taking influence in the region.

"As a result, American marines were sent to Santo Domingo in 1904, Nicaragua in 1911 and Haiti in 1915. seemingly to halt Europeans. another Latin American countries looked at these interventions with unrest, and the relation between 'the large Colossus of the North' and its confederate neighbours remained tense for many years," we read in American archives.

And another example of citing doctrine – in 1962, during the Cuban crisis, erstwhile the USSR began building rocket launchers in Cuba, and president John F. Kennedy introduced a blockade of the sea and air island.

The administration of president Ronald Reagan besides appealed to doctrine, opposing the influence of Cuba and the USSR in Nicaragua and another countries of the region.

And now we have Donald Trump. Intervention in Venezuela, force response, threats to another countries and reasoning that the Western Hemisphere (meaning North, Central and South America) is simply a region of exceptional, privileged US interests.

Donroe's doctrine. "To reconstruct American dominance in the Western Hemisphere"

"Donald Trump has announced a fresh doctrine", "Reactivates Monroe's doctrine", "After the attack on Venezuela he announces "Donroe's doctrine" – specified a transmission flows continuously after American intervention in Venezuela.



Some analysts indicate that it is more about the US's rivalry with China than with the countries of Europe. They're talking about a fresh planet order and a fresh strategy of forces. But what can this mean in practice?

– Honestly, we don't know what that means yet. If China or Russia have concrete investments or interests in Latin America, what are we going to do about it? I'm not certain this administration, in fact, worked out it herself," said Mieczysław Boduszynski, erstwhile American diplomat and prof. of Pomona College, California.

Donroe's doctrine was written a year ago erstwhile Trump was raging with the Pan Canal or Canada.



Surely the alleged "complementation of Trump" to Monroe's doctrine appeared in the US National safety Strategy, released in November 2025.

The paper states that the U.S. wants a controlled and unchangeable Western hemisphere that reduces migration, cooperates with Washington in the fight against cartels and crime, does not let abroad powers to enter key resources and routes, and remains strategically available to the US.

Among another things, it says:

"After years of US negligence, they will reaffirm and enforce Monroe's doctrine to reconstruct American dominance in the Western hemisphere and defend our territory and access to key geographical areas throughout the region".

And then, "We will deny rivals outside the hemisphere the anticipation of deploying forces or another threatening capabilities, as well as having or controlling strategically key assets in our hemisphere."

"This "Trump correlation" to Monroe's doctrine is simply a common sense and effective restoration of American strength and priorities, in line with the interests of the safety of the United States," stressed.