In this episode, we explore from defensive bluff to the donroe doctrine. Imagine declaring like a massive geopolitical red line across an entire hemisphere. Right. Just drawing a line straight down the map. Exactly. You are looking the most powerful, heavily armed empires in the world. dead in the eye and you're telling them to stay out of your half of the globe. Which is a bold move. It's an insanely bold move. Especially when you consider they did all of this when they didn't even have a functioning army or like a credible Navy to defend that line. Yeah it sounds like absolute Jew political suicide. But in 1823 the United States did exactly that. So welcome to the deep dive. Today we've got a massive stack of historical research government documents and modern news reports to explore. The Monroe Doctrine, which is arguably the most resilient, cont ...