Podcast: "The Hard Country," Ep. 19, happy bicentennial Monroe Doctrine!

Two hundred years of sound American strategic policy.

All episodes of The Hard Country are worth watching, of course, but this one is especially so. We discuss the bicentennial of the Monroe Doctrine — which I argue here was a net benefit to Latin America, which is surely not the majoritarian view in Latin America — the Roosevelt Corollary, the prospects for war between Venezuela and Guyana, Janet Yellen’s mission to Mexico City, kidnappings in northern Mexico, the Feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe, and much more. Have a watch:

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