2026-01-10
49 分钟The Economist.
The President delivered the message to Congress, but the real audience might have been across the Atlantic.
The United States would not interfere in European affairs; Europe should do the same in the Americas.
The Monroe Doctrine, named for the fifth president, James Monroe, asserted American dominance in the Western Hemisphere.
In the 200 years since, presidents have used the doctrine to justify all sorts of American action.
The new National Security Strategy called for a Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
And now that the United States has captured former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro,
Trump has boasted of his own Donrow Doctrine.
I'm John Prideaux, and this is Checks and Balance from The Economist.
Each week, we take one big theme shaping American politics and explore it in depth.
Today, is this what America First means now?
The US has settled on Maduro’s vice president as Venezuela’s leader,
but Donald Trump has said the US will run the country.
Who’s really in charge?
What happens next in Venezuela, the region, and farther afield?
With me this week to talk about the most extraordinary act of Donald Trump’s foreign policy,
I think in either the first or the second term, so far at least,
are James Bennet, who’s in Washington DC, and Charlotte Howard, who’s here on a trip to London.
James, how are you doing? What is up in DC?
It's hard to walk down the sidewalk right now in Washington DC