Trump Doctrine, Venezuela and the Monroe Doctrine

The United States is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere.

We're a superpower, and under President Trump, we are going to conduct ourselves as a superpower.

It is absurd that we would allow a nation in our own backyard to become the supplier of resources to our adversaries, but not to us, to hoard weapons from our adversaries, to be able to be positioned as an asset against the United States rather than on behalf of the United States.

Sovereign countries should be able to do what they wanna do.

The, the Monroe Doctrine, the Monroe Doctrine and the Trump Doctrine is all about securing the national interests of America.

For, for years, we sent our soldiers to die in deserts in the Middle East to try to build them parliaments- But Steven- ... to try to build them democracies, to try to give them more oil, to try to give them more resources.

The future of the free world, Jake, depends on America being able to assert ourselves and our interests without apology.

This, this whole period that happened after World War II where the West began apologizing, and groveling, and begging- I don't, I don't even know honestly what you're talking about right now ... and engaging these mass reparations schemes. It's a... What I'm talking about, Jake,

is the idea... And y- by the way, you do, I know you love doing that smarmy thing, Jake, and I was hoping you'd be better than that this time. You know exactly- I'm just, I'm, I asked you about if there should be an election ... you know exactly, you know exactly what-

I asked you if there would be an election in Venezuela. That's what I asked.

And I said- I'm saying- ... why was the president so quick to dismiss Machado?

You answered that question. Because, Jake, the objective- And then I said- ... the objective, Jake, is security and stability for the people of Venezuela