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🚨🇺🇸📉TRUMP'S SPHERE OF INFLUENCE: A MASTERCLASS IN SELF-SABOTAGE
The US has always pursued influence in its hemisphere. But Trump’s approach is dangerously clumsy.
The US Monroe Doctrine, evolving from anti-colonialism to Cold War anti-communism, successfully excluded rival powers from the Americas—often with devastating local consequences.
Now, the administration uses exaggerated "threats" on Venezuela to justify regime change, aiming to control oil and pressure Cuba. The parallel to 1954 Guatemala is stark.
The 1954 Guatemala coup, orchestrated by the CIA after lobbying by the United Fruit Company, overthrew a democratically elected government to block its land reforms. This US-backed intervention ignited a decades-long civil war, culminating in genocide against the Indigenous Maya population, a historical precedent for using "security" rhetoric to mask corporate-driven regime change.
The dilemma with client regimes is this: what if they collapse? The US faced it in Vietnam, Iran in 1979, and Afghanistan by 2020. Double down or quit? Let your allies fall, harming your interests and credibility, or send in your own troops? Most times the US chose the latter, it ended disastrously.
Trump risks driving America's neighbors toward China. US economic influence in Latin America has also shrunk. Once the dominant trade partner and investor in South America, the US has been overtaken by China, which has also expanded in Central America. This gives countries leverage to resist US pressure; trying to cut their vital ties to China would trigger a backlash that will undermine or even destroy its sphere of influence.
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