The Donroe Doctrine.FTACo88-FDT24dad said:YouBet said:FTACo88-FDT24dad said:
Good article that attempts to articulate how the USA has understood and implemented its power since dropping the bomb. Worth a read.Quote:
The bomb did more than end a war. It altered America's relationship to power itself. When the United States became the first nation capable of annihilating cities in a single act, moral recoil was immediate and sincere. American culture, which Protestant seriousness and a belief that power entails responsibility shaped, absorbed the shock deeply. Strength ceased to feel morally neutral. It began to feel dangerous simply by existing.
That instinct was not wrong. Nuclear weapons demanded restraint. Prudence was rational. But the psychological effect did not remain confined to nuclear strategy. Over time, American power itself acquired an asterisk. It required justification, apology, limitation.
Responsibility subtly transformed from stewardship into suspicion.
The cultural shorthand for this instinct is almost embarrassingly familiar. As Stan Lee famously put it, "With great power comes great responsibility." The line was never meant as a warning against action; nor was it a simple comic book slogan. It was a statement of duty. Power implied obligation, not paralysis.
https://pjmedia.com/jamie-wilson/2026/01/03/the-gentle-giant-problem-why-america-stopped-using-its-power-n4947851
I'll read it later but gosh I'm tired of reading stuff that was obviously put through the AI filter. This section you quoted here is gold standard AI generated. It's all structured the same way and sounds the same regardless of the topic. We've somehow overnight commoditized written language with AI.
Rant over.
Here's one that is definitely not AI and is also substantively solid.
https://open.substack.com/pub/blackmon/p/trumps-venezuela-move-a-17-trillion?r=1eb7tu&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
The Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine:
"After years of neglect, the United States will reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American preeminence in the Western Hemisphere, and to protect our homeland and our access to key geographies throughout the region. We will deny non-Hemispheric competitors the ability to position forces or other threatening capabilities, or to own or control strategically vital assets, in our Hemisphere." - Passage contained in the Trump Administration's 2025 National Security Strategy published November, 2025.
The left cannot kill the Spirit of Charlie Kirk.
