Did the capture of Nicolás Maduro mark a return to America’s original foreign policy or a new era of U.S. interventionism?
In this episode, we examine the so-called “Donroe Doctrine” and ask whether President Trump’s decisive operation in Venezuela aligns more closely with the Founders’ restrained vision of foreign policy than with the ideological interventionism of the 20th and 21st centuries. By revisiting the Monroe Doctrine and the historical limits America once placed on its use of force, we explore what distinguishes Trump's realism from regime-change wars.
