Soldiers salute the American flag at Camp Taji, Iraq, March 18, 2020. Photo by Caroline Schofer/US Army. Every day we gather evidence of the pathetic performance of the Russian military in Ukraine. There was the inability to deal with Ukraine’s primitive air defense; the loss of the flagship of the
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Canadian Dimension: The United States of Hypocrisy: Revisiting the Monroe Doctrine
In Victor Gillam’s 1896 political cartoon, Uncle Sam stands with rifle between the outrageously dressed European figures and the native-dress-wearing representatives of Nicaragua and Venezuela. Image courtesy the Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons. There is no doctrinal statement in American diplomatic history that is more fundamental than the Monroe Doctrine. It
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