Monroe Doctrine is the subject of a history John Kiriakou tells. President Monroe declared in his 1823 State of the Union that the U.S. would oppose European involvement in the Western Hemisphere — a line nobody noticed for years, and which Britain ignored in 1852 by seizing the Falklands.[1][2] When Britain later invaded Venezuela for its gold, the U.S., too weak after the Civil War to fight, instead sued Britain at the international court in Geneva — and “high-fived” over a ruling that let Venezuela keep just 10% of its own gold.[3][4] Only in 1905 did Teddy Roosevelt make the doctrine real by forcing Britain out of Venezuela.[5] Kiriakou sees it revived today in the seizure of Maduro — calling the Maduro capture an odd reassertion of the doctrine, and noting a Chinese-built refinery in the Turks and Caicos and an Indian-built refinery in India were both undercutting the U.S. goal of channeling Venezuelan oil refining to Texas instead.[6]
Monroe Doctrine
John Kiriakou's history of the Monroe Doctrine — ignored for decades after 1823, humiliated in the Falklands and Venezuela, and only made real by Teddy Roosevelt in 1905 — which he sees revived today in the seizure of Maduro as a message that the hemisphere is America's.
References
- ↑ Austin and Matt, 2026-02-12 — 22:17 on YouTube · Transcript
- ↑ Austin and Matt, 2026-02-12 — 22:48 on YouTube · Transcript
- ↑ Austin and Matt, 2026-02-12 — 23:49 on YouTube · Transcript
- ↑ Austin and Matt, 2026-02-12 — 24:21 on YouTube · Transcript
- ↑ Austin and Matt, 2026-02-12 — 24:52 on YouTube · Transcript
- ↑ Unfiltered with S.A.M., 2026-01-09 — 19:20 on YouTube · Transcript
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