And this new Cold War, like the previous one, emanates from the even older Monroe Doctrine of 1823 in which US President James Monroe declared that the US has sole dominion over the Western Hemisphere. President Teddy Roosevelt would add his famous corollary to this Doctrine, declaring that the US …
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