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Presidents James Monroe and Theodore Roosevelt helped shape a policy that rationalizes U.S. intervention in Latin America and elsewhere. But Trump has brought that idea to a whole new level. n.pr/49UwohI

n.prWhat Teddy Roosevelt has to do with Trump's moves in Venezuela and GreenlandPresidents James Monroe and Theodore Roosevelt helped shape a policy that rationalizes U.S. intervention in Latin America and elsewhere. But Trump has brought that idea to a whole new level.

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You keep making the mistake of believing that Trump has any sort of political ideology. His only goals are to hoard as much wealth as he can, while terrorizing as many people as he can. He's more akin to Smaug than any former president.

Trump is cashing in America's accumulated political capital. All of it. Very rapidly. He gets away with it because the "don't mess with the US" voting bloc is every bit as stupid as he is.

“Intervene?” He sure as hell didn’t kidnap the president of Venezuela. After pardoning the equally criminal dictator of another country. And not to rape them of their resources. So no, not equivalent at all.

He literally partitioned Panama off from Columbia so we could take control of the land to build a canal. The biggest way in which Roosevelt and Trump are different is that Roosevelt had the balls to fight for American imperialism on the front lines. He wasn't a chickenhawk like Trump.