ripe for dissolution

“the monroe doctrine is a big deal”____ trump: we’re dealing with people who were just got sworn in, and don’t ask me who’s in charge, because I’ll give you an answer that will be controversial. Reporter: what does that mean? Trump: it means we’re in charge.____ “we need total access. total access to the oil.”____ on gustavo petro and columbia: “run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the united states. he’s not going to be doing it for very long.”____ “american dominance in the western hemisphere will never be questioned again.”____ “we need greenland from a standpoint of national security.”____ ‘i don’t know if they’re going to hold out, but cuba now has no income.”_____ the political cover for the monroe doctrine was that it served to protect the emerging nations in central and south america from re-colonization and/or interference in their internal affairs by european powers...that this “doctrine" was, from its inception, used as a rationalization for the united states to interfere in the internal affairs of those nations is a given...from chile to nicargua to guatemala and panama and so on, this seems to be a blind spot ...it’s a “big deal” because don ( and, no doubt, his trusted handlers...he isn’t thinking this stuff up on his own ) can use it to re-institute the socio-political and international relations of the late 19th century...except, of course, in cuba where a return to the batista era of the 1950s with casinos and hookers in the streets of havana are the foreseen outcome...the late empire is in an expansionist mood...which may give the russians a green light in ukraine ( since resources will be tight as the expansion bogs down ) and big dada xi may well knock off taiwan since that is his “sphere of influence”...and did anyone else notice the comment about “total access to the oil”...we may be closing in on the main nerve there...and that probably won’t please big dada xi since china seems to be venezuela’s biggest customer...the times continue to be interesting.