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Paul Yarbrough

The Monroe Dogmatic Doctrinaire

1/19/2026

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For those mental midgets who constantly turn to the Monroe Doctrine as a defense for whatever the government chooses to do in this hemisphere (see the current hoopla over Venezuela), let them go back to school; that is assuming they have ever been there. The Monroe Doctrine was shot to hell by the national government (USA) many years ago and not by the real federal government (that initiated the MD) which had been rent, charred, burned and vexed by Father Abraham, his New England Yankee Hamiltonian stylists, and his mercenary European (primarily German) socialists.


The national government that replaced the real federal government, of course, is the government that was formed at gunpoint by those union members, members in such (real) federal government, who attacked those in the same federal union who had exited from that union. That real union was, of course, the one that had been voluntarily put together through an agreement in convention (not at gunpoint) and ratified, ultimately by all. The ratification claimed in writing (New York, Rhode Island and Virginia) the obvious concept that the members in said union could voluntarily leave just as freely as they had entered. None of the members would have joined thinking or accepting otherwise, as they had demonstrated more than once.* Such demonstrations did what those who were ultimately forced at “gunpoint” later to cede as their rights of free men via such a demonstration.


These members were forced (at gunpoint) to reunite, not in union, but in amalgamation to the heavenly breasts of the new national god (now, many years later, referred to as The Deep State); now to firmly suckle sour milk on the teat producing a “National Anthem,” and abandoning the sweet nourishment of a republic and its patriotic “Star Spangled banner.”


Wilhelm Richard Wagner, therefore, no longer Francis Scott Key.


And, of course, James Monroe would have been dealing with the British through a union of states and not a single national state.


But back to the Monroe Doctrine:


The doctrine presented by President James Monroe was in conjunction with the British Empire, as coadjutor, who wanted no more European colonization in South America, and the “doctrine” stated that the American Union would not interfere in European affairs, and on the other side the European states would not interfere in Western hemisphere affairs (aside from colonies already established). The hammer that could pound the nail was, of course, the British navy. Left to itself the American federal republican union was not strong enough to support the “doctrine.”


(Of course, after this union became a “democratic national empire-in-waiting” apart from a republican union it went bat-slop crazy with its razing of the MD).


The British and its empire economy had long lived via (and believed in) the economic mercantile system - basically, always export more than you import - and after the successful American secession of 1776 (written erroneously in history as “revolution”) they determined (and probably rightly so) that that same mercantile system worked better with independent nations than with colonized territories, considering the expense of the latter.


Just over 4 decades later and after Southern “Reconstruction” and the spoils of the war of secession gained by the Hamiltonian nationalists (misnomer-ed as federalists) was firmly in place, such little national “freebies-for-intervention” as The Spanish American War; WWI and its offspring: WWII, The Marshall Plan, NATO, The Cold War, and its step-children Korea, Vietnam (afterbirth of a French colonial problem) and on and on with interference directly or indirectly within European interplay and interference spread like wildfire - the Monroe Doctrine be damned. And that doesn’t even bring us to the Yugoslavia bombshell!


And if there are people with a problem in spelling the old Tito communist state, certainly most can spell U.K.R.A.I.N.E.


The “doctrine” had long since become dogma.


In any event it applies for the neocons to Venezuela but not to Denmark. But what the %^&*!


But those same “midgets” to this day and with the same old MIC (military-industrial-complex) cheering along whoever is “the leader of the free world” or “the most powerful man in the world” often mistaken as someone constitutionally named singularly, and only, as “The President,” will ballyhoo the Monroe Doctrine as if it stood as some grand commandment for the honorific bathing in blood by some demigod called “American Exceptionalism.”


Whatever Virginian, James Monroe, had in mind with his then accepted “doctrine,” the legality, or at least the honor have long since been washed away by politicians. Politicians, most of whom would never shoulder a rifle or put on a uniform let alone bother to read history; history not of opinion but of sources.


Perhaps we would be better off with “the most powerful man in the world” being addled. If listening to midgets of mind are the current one’s best advice he gets, then what is the difference?


One thing that old men like me have in common is that we are glad we are old. At least we don’t have to listen much longer to the nonsense from the so-called “two-party system” and its bastard offspring the Washington Media and Deep State.


Tempus Fugit.

*Was Secession Treason? – Abbeville Institute One of hundreds of essays, books, etc on the proper state of secession historically. And not just in the western hemisphere. 
2 Comments
Clyde N Wilson
1/20/2026 05:37:58 am

The Yankee J.Q. Adams tried to turn the Doctrine into an excuse for imperialism and McKinley-TR Republicans succeeded

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David T LeBeau
1/25/2026 04:21:40 pm

Excellent work, Mr. Yarbrough.

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    Paul Yarbrough has written several pieces over the last few years for_ The Blue State Conservative, NOQ, The Daily Caller, Communities Digital News, American Thinker, The Abbeville Institute, Lew Rockwell _and perhaps two or three others. He is also the author of 4 published novels (all Southern stories , one a Kindle Bestseller), a few short stories and a handful of poems. 

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