Since I have no access to information I will revert to some of the
history of US intervention in South and
Central America, military or intelligent arrangement of republics that want to nationalize or change the owners US business interests without negotiation and compensation. Was not the Monroe Doctrine applied to "real" situations? Or was it just the foreign ships and aggression mentioned in my grade
school history lessons. I am getting too old to push the panic button over BS. Some of the history of US military action in the hemisphere comes to mind:
Cuba (Philippines also), Trinidad,
Panama,
Chile, Bolivia, and
Cuba again with the missile crisis... El Salvador and
Guatemala, and
Nicaragua.
Not in any order and very incomplete. I left out the many occurrences of friction with
Mexico and also directly with
Russia dealing with
Alaska and the Aleutians, as that is not in tropical waters. We had a significant dispute with the UK /
Canada over Islands on the far west of the continent, but cool local heads realized at the time that
communications was slow and they should wait and have a few beers together while ships brought news of the conflict in the east. Nice to hang with cool heads particularly well supplied with
beer, grog,
rum, and good whiskey!
I prefer diplomacy over military action, but there is little negative to be said about war except that people and many innocents not only get hurt, they pay the highest
price. In the end it is the taxpayer that coughs up the
money and soldiers that pay in blood and breath. On the ecological side, war leaves one hell of a mess that is a stain on everyones
record. Chain the peacemaker to the table and replace them if they fail or die. Cheaper and better than costly battles and parking military to expand the need for superfund cleanups around the globe.
I am sure that a little careful reading of Donald's missives would do so. 
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