In a frightening and ridiculous article, the militant journalist of the National Interest explains why the hesitation with which the Biden administration reacted to the Chinese balloon that migrated into their airspace is unacceptable.
Author and historian Mike Coté says it's time for America to review the Monroe Doctrine as its enemies continue to push more brazenly into the Western Hemisphere. Sure. Coté describes the flying balloon as impudence, a provocation that calls for retaliation.
László Földi recently wrote about the case in Magyar Nemzet:
"One of those stories is when a Chinese weather balloon got loose or was 'unleashed' at the behest of Beijing. Seeing the impossibility following the event, it doesn't matter what the real antecedent is. Because it suddenly appeared above the United States, causing panic and bewilderment in the political center of the great power that wants to control the world, in the presidential - oval - room of the White House.
The crisis team started a discussion about what to do in such a situation. Multi-star Pentagon generals and advisers to the President of America analyzed the possible solutions with a cloudy look. Of course, there weren't many alternatives, only two: shoot him or leave him to the whims of the wind, which will obviously blow him away, let's say, in the direction of Europe. Presumably, even in Jenő Rejtő's novel, that solution would have taken a surprising turn if the dark-eyed advisers had the alternative of blowing the balloon back into China's airspace.
However, there was a foodie and creative not-so-comedian among the people in the oval room, who came up with the third solution, not to shoot the balloon for the time being, but to use it to show the country and the world the shameless provocation of the Chinese. After all, as the controlled media will broadcast to the world, Beijing has apparently seriously violated the national security of the United States with the balloon campaign. The word was followed by action, and the international press was fired up, making thick noises at the sight of the unacceptable provocation.
The preparation may have been a bit hasty, as there was an apparently uninitiated American military expert who irresponsibly declared:
"The Chinese spy balloon may be scanning America's land, but what can it record compared to what the Chinese, Russian, French, English, Israeli, etc. couldn't satellites document it before?"
Despite this, Coté explains at length how China, Iran and Russia have become impudent in recent years, and then states that
“a number of specific measures can be taken beyond the immediate cancellation of the shooting and Blinken's trip.
America must prevent further incursions into its territory, whether by balloon or otherwise, to send a deterrent signal to America's adversaries."
He then goes on to say that he considers it timely to dust off and reconsider the Monroe Doctrine and its Roosevelt supplement. Because it is still outrageous that a balloon flies over the American mainland and authoritarian superpowers appear in the USA's backyard.
Unfortunately, he did not write a single line about whether the Western Hemisphere is synonymous with the backyard for America, then whether Ukraine can be called Russia's front room or whether we can call Taiwan China's veranda, which, knowing the hypocrisy of the Atlantic shells, is not so surprising.
The Monroe Doctrine is well-known, but its addition is less so, even though Roosevelt put America in the role of world policeman.
200 years ago, following the Napoleonic Wars and during the Latin American Revolutions, President James Monroe and Secretary of State John Quincy Adams announced what became known as the Monroe Doctrine. In his seventh annual address to Congress, Monroe stated that
"the American continent, by virtue of the free and independent state it has assumed and maintained, cannot henceforth be regarded as an object of future colonization by any European power".
Then in 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt furthered the legacy of the Monroe Doctrine and carried it into the new century. In what became known as the Roosevelt Conclusion, the president put it this way:
"Evil acts or impotence resulting in the dissolution of the bonds of civilized society may ultimately necessitate its intervention, and adherence to the Monroe Doctrine may compel the United States, if reluctantly, to exercise international police power in egregious cases of such misdeeds or impotence." "
How charming this modesty is, especially in regard to reluctance.
This "international police power", Coté writes, was aimed at strengthening the Monroe Doctrine and guaranteeing the security of the Western Hemisphere for American interests. According to Roosevelt, "a great free people owes it to itself and to all mankind not to sink into impotence before evil powers," and this mission has influenced American foreign policy ever since. A key passage in the Roosevelt Amendment reads:
"We would intervene only as a last resort and only if it became apparent that the inability or refusal to do justice at home and abroad violated the rights of the United States or invited foreign aggression to the detriment of the American nations as a whole."
The United States therefore declared with the Monroe Doctrine that it alone is the master in the Western Hemisphere, and everyone else should be heard, and then with Roosevelt's addition, it created a legal and ideological basis for itself to rule over the entire world at its whim. according to
All this resulted in tens of millions of deaths worldwide; women, men, children, old people, who were murdered by the bright-eyed USA in the wars it started in the last decades - even without legal grounds, thousands of kilometers from the Western Hemisphere. How well it started.
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