Key ideas from Greg Grandin

• The Monroe Doctrine wasn't actually voted on or ratified - it was just scattered paragraphs in Monroe's 1823 State of the Union Address
• "All of this stuff is just unilateral US projections of its power" - Greg on current Venezuela sanctions and interventions
• FDR completely reversed course in 1933, renouncing US intervention rights and giving up the "doctrine of conquest"
• "Trump isn't even trying to cobble together a new worldview" - unlike Reagan or FDR who created lasting governing ideologies
• Latin America is historically where the US goes "to dominate when we're internally weak" - a recurring pattern
• The US arrested foreign leaders before: Manuel Noriega in 1989 and forced Jean-Bertrand Aristide into exile in 2005
• "We are just going to accept oil tribute from Venezuela" represents an unprecedented approach to international relations