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re: What do liberals consider the reason south of border nations are failed states
Posted on 6/23/18 at 1:06 pm to ShortyRob
Posted on 6/23/18 at 1:06 pm to ShortyRob
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And since we are using the excuse that basically says the United States caused all of those places to fail because of our imperialistic tendencies can someone explain to me how those Tendencies manage to frick up Brazil and Guatemala but not Canada
I mean, one reason that the British created the Dominion of Canada was that there were fears of American invasion and interference in British-Canadian politics. Post WWI, the Canadians wrote a contingency plan, called Defense Scheme no.1, which detailed a counterattack plan in the case of American invasion.
The Monroe Doctrine, the Big Brother Policy, the Roosevelt Corollary and Dollar Diplomacy did have an effect on Western Hemisphere politics, but it worked both ways. For example, the US Navy dissuaded the Germans from an invasion of Venezuela.
American imperialism has been somewhat more interested in preventing European powers from gaining another foothold in the West, rather than strictly dominating Latin America. It tended to dominate the entire Western Hemisphere anyway by virtue of its wealth, and absence of neighboring rivals, which is the most important reason for American dominance in the West.
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