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Putin Wants His Own Monroe Doctrine: When the Union was fighting to preserve itself in the Civil War, the France of Napoleon III moved troops into Mexico, overthrew the regime of Benito - Patrick J. Buchanan for Antiwar.com Original

Putin Wants His Own Monroe Doctrine

by Patrick J. Buchanan Posted onFebruary 08, 2022

When the Union was fighting to preserve itself in the Civil War, the France of Napoleon III moved troops into Mexico, overthrew the regime of Benito Juarez, set up a monarchy and put Austrian Archduke Maximilian von Habsburg on the throne as Emperor of Mexico – one month before Gettysburg.

Preoccupied, the Union did nothing.

At war’s end, in 1865, however, at the urging of Gens. Ulysses S. Grant and William Sherman, the Union sent 40,000 troops to the Mexican border.

Secretary of State William Seward dispatched Gen. John Schofield to Paris with the following instructions: "I want you to get your legs under Napoleon’s mahogany and tell him he must get out of Mexico."

The U.S. troops on Mexico’s border convinced Napoleon to comply, though Maximilian bravely refused to leave and was captured and put before a firing squad.

The point of the episode for today’s crisis in Ukraine?

A powerful army on a nation’s border can send a message and dictate terms without going in and without going to war.

Whether Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to send his 100,000 troops now on the Crimean, Donbass, and Belarusian borders of Ukraine into the country to occupy more territory we do not know.

But the message being sent by the Russian army is clear: Putin wants his own Monroe Doctrine. Putin wants Ukraine outside of NATO, and permanently.

If his demands are unacceptable, Putin is saying with his troops on the border, we reserve the right to send our army into Ukraine to protect our vital national interests in not having a hostile military alliance on our doorstep.

US officials have been describing a Russian invasion as "imminent," an attack that could come "any day now."

Given the Russian preparations and size of its forces, some US officials said last week Kyiv could fall within hours of an attack and there could be 50,000 civilian casualties and 5 million Ukrainian refugees.

Ukrainian leaders are less alarmist, arguing that an invasion is not imminent and there is still room for a negotiated settlement.

Russian officials are contemptuous of US claims that they are about to invade. Last weekend, Russia’s deputy ambassador to the UN tweeted, "Madness and scaremongering continues. … What if we would say that US could seize London in a week and cause 300k civilian deaths?"

Should Russia invade, and go beyond what President Joe Biden earlier called a "minor incursion," the event could be history-changing.

A major invasion would trigger automatic and severe sanctions on Russia, crippling European economies on both sides of the conflict and forcing Putin to take his country more fully into a Eurasian alliance with China. Yet, ultimately, it is China, not the US, and not NATO, that is the long-term threat to Russia.

Neither we nor Europe have any claims on Russian territory.

But China, with an economy 10 times the size of Russia’s, and a population 10 times as large, has historic claims on what are now Russian lands north of the Amur and Ussuri rivers. Russians living in Siberia and the Far East are far outnumbered by scores of millions of Chinese just south of the border. These Russian lands are rich in the resources China covets. The two nations came close to war over these borderlands in the late 1960s.

To return to the analogy of the US waiting for the right moment to force France out of Mexico, China and Russia both now appear stronger, more united, more assertive and more anti-U.S. than either was at the turn of the century.

Russia is now demanding to have its borderlands – ex-Warsaw Pact nations and ex-Soviet republics – free of NATO installations and troops.

Half a dozen ex-Warsaw Pact countries and three USSR republics – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia – are members of NATO.

China, with an economy and military far larger than at the turn of the century, is also becoming more assertive about its land claims. These include claims against India in the Himalayas, against half a dozen nations on the South China Sea, including our Philippines ally, against Taiwan, and claims to the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands.

The combined strength and reach of Russia and China are growing, while the US, post-Afghanistan, is facing challenges to its resources that it seems increasingly strained to meet.

Russia has marshaled an army estimated at between 127,000 and 175,000 troops in a few months, just across the border from Ukraine, while the US this weekend sent 3,000 troops to Rumania, Germany and Poland.

Where is the deterrent here?

Again, Putin’s demands that ex-Warsaw Pact countries and Soviet republics be kept free of NATO installations, and that the enlargement of NATO end, if agreed to, would leave Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova and Belarus permanently outside.

But if Moscow is going to push to remove NATO forces from its borderlands, this means an endless series of diplomatic-military clashes or a US recognition of a Russian sphere of influence where NATO does not go.

In short, a Putin Monroe Doctrine.

Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World. To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Web page at www.creators.com.

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Better than ask your kids to names the 50 states or 265 countries in existence today ask them to name all the wars the USA participated in and count the money and lives we lost fighting by invading in other peoples countries.

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Trump culo flaco mata America,
Buen Elvis, Buen America,
con un faceo bonito,
nunca sucio o pobre,
ven a America Trump

simplista cinema,
en verdad America mata Elvis,
Y Elvis mata el mundo,
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pero no enemigo, no amiga,
nuestro morta vien aqui y ahora,
Prison sentencia es vida en infierno,
desde muchos infiernos, escapa nada,
passado presente futura, en vida nada viv,
nada seguro, nada perfecto,
que asi porque vive muerte
Senor Presidente Saludo,
Mueto, JFK CIA generals mata Diem,
novembre 2, 1963, no mas Diem, no mas Vietnam,
novembre 20, 1963, no mas JFK,
el muerte de Diem mato a JFK,

TRUMP SATANICO no deseado
palabras odi un mente de loco basura,
palabras odia un mente de loco basura,
?como vives?

BASICAS CRÍTICAS DE PELIGROS
AMERICA un mentira grande, ELVIS bueno,
@NicolasMaduro es bueno,
TRUMPS CLINTONS BUSHES RNC DNC CIA
chupa la pingas de pedofiles,

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mira la vecha of Trump muy macho,
en temor a las nubes de lluvia, el se escapo,
pregunta Presidente Macron,

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pero vivanemos eso,
Cuando el Papa habla,
escuchamos nada en particular,
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en la guerre sucio bonita,
Bienvenido su vacancia en las Islas Malvinas,
Argentina pendejos?
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apprendemos desde estupidez, no?
desde experencia, observacion, analysis,
si tienes mente  por favor:
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Mira Soldats Americano,
norte desde mexico, sur desde Canada
al borde, para vencer a los ninos y las mujeres,
vuestro ninos y mujeras,
para vencer al viejo el enfermo,
usteds viejo y enfermo,
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soñando con Texas,
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los reyes de españa,
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Hugo Chavez and Nicolás Maduro. As Venezuela has long been a target as the richest of oil reserves in the world, that brought it under attack because of its oil, Venezuela is now under by the Republicans, as Donald Trump accuses him them of being tyrants and dictators. A dictatorship that allegedly circumvented Congress where the distinction is being that the Venezuelan Supreme Court ruled the Venezuelan Congress to be illegal because the opposition cheated and had the elections there rigged for Uncle Sam.

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