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MINSK, 21 January (BelTA) – According to the new U.S. National Security Strategy, sometimes referred to as the “Donroe Doctrine” after U.S. President Donald Trump, Washington aims to turn the Western Hemisphere into a fortress and vie for dominance over the rest of the world, Igor Shishkin, an expert of the Institute of CIS Countries, said in a recent episode of the V Teme [On Point] project on BelTA’s YouTube channel.
“Trump has laid it all out clearly and plainly in his national security doctrine, where he declared that the Western Hemisphere will be a fortress of the United States. And the entire rest of the world is something over which Trump will fight for dominance. As he said, they are reviving an updated Monroe Doctrine,” Igor Shishkin noted.
The expert pointed out that the original Monroe Doctrine implied U.S. dominance in the Western Hemisphere, while Washington did not interfere in the affairs of European powers. “The updated Monroe Doctrine (or, as it is sometimes called, Donroe) is a doctrine according to which the Western Hemisphere is a zone of U.S. interests, but they will fight for everything else too,” he emphasized.
Igor Shishkin drew attention to the fact that in its current form, a united Europe is not at all what the United States would like to see. “The USA prefers to have a group of states friendly to them there instead of the European Union, which ‘tramples on the values of European civilization.’ Was that said? It was. That says it all,” the expert concluded.
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