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Donroe Doctrine - Venezuela, Maduro & the American Super Continent
- A Radical Dispatch
1) Detaining the Venezuelan President
News of Donald Trump’s raid, detention and extraordinary rendition of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro requires no introduction.
In this Dispatch we situate Trump’s Maduro operation in established US foreign policy doctrine, and frame it in a manner consistent with our previous analysis: Trump’s Venezuela operation continues his anti-war trajectory of actually deescalating World War III. Read on to understand how.
The White House broke news of the daring US raid on Venezuela as follows.
True to the Trump administration’s unabashed style, the White House celebrated his raid’s success with the below clip, set to a track by the late New York rapper Notorious B.I.G.
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Our immediate reaction and framing of the operation was as below.
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has since dropped their drug trafficking charges, leaving little doubt that the entire operation was strategically, not legally, driven.
So what exactly was Trump doing here?
2) What is the Donroe Doctrine?
Trump framed his own Venezuela operation with reference to a Donroe Doctrine. This is an amalgam of the word Don (for Donald Trump) and the 1823 Monroe Doctrine named after former US president James Monroe.
ABC reports 6th January 2026:
Direct reference to this Donroe Doctrine was made by Trump’s in breaking news press conference on Venezuela.
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President Trump: “All of these actions were in gross violation of the core principles of American foreign policy, dating back more than two centuries. And not anymore. All the way back, it dated to the Monroe Doctrines. And the Monroe Doctrine is a big deal. But we’ve superseded it by a lot. By a real lot. They now call it the Donroe Doctrine. I don’t know. It’s uh…Monroe Doctrine. We sort of forgot about it. It was very important but we forgot about it. We don’t forget about it anymore. Under our new national security strategy American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again. Won’t happen.”
Such a framing is not new.
Contrary to globalist media’s feigned shock, the Trump administration telegraphed that this would be their approach in last November’s updated US National Security strategy.
ABC reports 6th January 2026:
Here is that strategy.
The White House reports, accessed 6th January 2026:
Surprised as many were, it’s not as if any of this was a secret. Here is the New York Post explaining Trump’s policy of reviving the Monroe Doctrine from a year ago, last January 2025.
In fact, and despite the efforts of anti-Trump talking heads seeking to portray his foreign policy decisions as erratic, Trump was already laying the foundations for the revival of the Monroe Doctrine as far back as 2018, while addressing the UN in the middle of his first term.
US Naval Institute reports December 2025:
In an effort to portray Trump as unstable, corporate media and their paid spin doctors have every incentive to ignore how Trump’s foreign policy is rooted in well established American political and historical context.
Understanding this context places Trump’s foreign policy firmly within - not outside of - established and respected American tradition. Trump’s revival of the isolationist Monroe Doctrine serves as the antithesis of globalist neoconservative imperialism.
Here is how.
3) Origins of the Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was originally an anti-colonial, and anti-interventionist doctrine. Contained in a speech made by President James Monroe in 1823, it was essentially a declaration by the United States that the entire hemisphere of the Americas formed a continuous and exclusive US sphere of influence. This prohibited interference by European colonial powers in South America, while going hand in hand with American isolationism from the rest of the world.
The US National Archives reports, accessed 6th January 2026:
The approach was one of ‘you stay out of our backyard and we’ll stay out of yours.’ This was a revolutionary and bold announcement at the time by the considerably weaker former colony of America. And they lacked the means to enforce it against their European colonial counterparts.
Instead, the Monroe Doctrine came to be enforced by the Royal British Navy, who had reasons of their own for not wanting any more European colonies in South America.
US Naval Institute reports December 2025:
In 1904 president Roosevelt added a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
Whereas previously the Americans had no means to enforce it, and they had relied on the British to do so, now - due to Roosevelt’s corollary - the doctrine was enforceable for the first time by an increasingly powerful United States policing its own ‘backyard’. It just so happens that Roosevelt’s corollary involved none other than - again - Venezuela.
US Office of the Historian reports, accessed 6th January 2026:
As can be seen by Roosevelt’s corollary, and far from being unique, Trump’s justification for intervention through use of this doctrine mimics past military interventions by US presidents in places such as Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and the Dominic Republic, and specifically Venezuela.
The Roosevelt corollary ensured that a previously passive doctrine was turned into an active one. Roosevelt was famous for saying ‘speak softly and carry a big stick’. Trump’s Donroe corollary revived and further adapted the Roosevelt corollary to include preemptive action, and not just defence. Trump instead chose to speak strongly and carry a big stick.
Whereas past American presidents from the neoconservatvie era chose to shroud their foreign imperialism in the hypocritical language of democracy and human rights, the Donroe doctrine offers a raw and unabashed approach to protecting American interests by securing economic gain. Critics may choose to label Trump’s action as imperialist, but Trump’s is an ‘honest’ form of imperialism.
Geopolitical Economy reports 5th January 2026:
Understanding the doctrinal premise for why Trump intervened in Venezuela also helps in shedding simplistic and reductive frameworks for reading these latest events.
For example, and unlike globalist neoconservativism, it is an oversimplification to read Trump’s intervention as an American decision taken merely in Israel’s interests, as Venezuelan Vicepresident Delcy Rodriguez sought to do.
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Israel celebrating a foreign policy decision taken by America does not mean that Israel is the reason that America took such a decision.
It is not only conceivable, but is in fact the case that the US would like to see the back of Chinese and Russian presence in South America regardless of Israeli approval or disapproval. Trump’s Maduro operation was after all rooted in an American doctrine older than Israel’s very existence.
4) Trump’s Venezuela Operation: Is it right?
Now that the basis of Trump’s Maduro operation is situated in established American foreign policy doctrine, and not some supposed MAGA tendency toward erraticism, what remains is to ask: is it right?
Such a question is theoretical at best. Nevertheless, we answered it as below.
Placed in its proper context as above, the question of action leading to American dominance and inaction leading to Russian and Chinese dominance in South America remains a dilemma that so-called anti-imperialists are yet to realistically address.
When nuclear powers are involved, national security is a zero sum game. By arguing against American control in their own sphere of influence, so called anti-imperialists are implicitly arguing for Russian and Chinese control. It will be one or the other.
Considering the application of the Monroe doctrine enforces American hegemony in the Americas, the quid pro quo is that implicit within its use is that the US agrees to stay out of the rest of the world in return.
In this way, and contrary to many anti-imperialists critics, Trump’s formal reference to the Monroe doctrine is in fact formal confirmation of the US empire’s retreat from the rest of the world. Yes, Maduro supporters will be offended, but as in Syria, many Venezuelans have also welcomed the end of their Russian-backed dictator Maduro. He did after all lose an election, and then just cancel it.
In this way, Trump’s move is the opposite of neoconservative imperialism. It is in fact a retreat to pre-WWII American isolationism. With the Donroe corollary adding surgical strikes where necessary to ensure this retreat. ‘You stay out of our backyard, and we’ll stay out of yours’.
This is truly game changing.
And for it to work, Russia and China would have to be in on it. What they would expect in return is that America stays out of their own spheres of interest too. In this way the Great Powers have agreed to divide up the world into their three distinct spheres so as to avoid a Thucydides Trap, or sparking World War III.
This reconfirms our long standing view that the world powers have agreed to back away from their competing colonial ambitions, instead agreeing to a grand regional settlement for peace.
Such a collaborative moment was last witnessed in Syria, where the Russian navy voluntarily withdrew, allowing for the overthrow of the Putin-allied Bashar al-Assad, to be replaced by Nato-allied Ahmed al-Shara.
Radical Media reports 11th December 2024:
In this way, suggestions of internal collaboration with Trump by the Venezuelan regime make sense. Is it any wonder then that - similar to Syria - signs of an internal deal are already appearing?
This is supported by the fact that Trump declined to back Venezuela’s opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Machado, instead preferring to keep Maduro’s regime intact, simply dealing with his immediate replacement.
Trump has made this clear in his own words here…
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