> trump has revived the monroe doctrine, no he hasn't. he's playing a really annoying diplomatic game where he pretends like he wants unreasonable things like annexing greenland, canada or the panama canal zone so that all the other parties involved think they won when trump "settles" for less. he wants to reduce chinese control of the panama canal, get a more favorable trade relationship with canada and increase us military and economic access to greenland. if he starts from those positions, they'll negotiate down and the us will be worse off, but if he starts from a position all parties understand to be unreasonable and doesn't abandon it immediately, the us will usually get a better deal at the expense of trump's personal reputation, which he's willing to sacrifice quite a bit of at this point. even all the stuff he's said about the war in ukraine has been intended to piss russia off while still making them the bad guys should they get belligerent. he's forcing the games russia plays with decorum and diplomatic language to work against them. they conform to the letter of diplomatic procedure and will hold everyone else to account for not doing exactly the same as they couch all the tyrannical shit they want to do in words that are hard to impeach like "sovereignty" and "liberation." trump isn't giving them the chance to do that.
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