SUMMARY: Trump has brought back a zombified version of the Monroe Doctrine, the Dumbroe Doctrine in whose name we can shoot ourselves in the foot as he grinds our democracy, world standing, and economy into dust. There are three main pillars to the Dumbroe Doctrine: (a) taking Venezuelan oil, (b) taking Greenland from Denmark, and (c) giving away our world markets by losing a trade war. The Man with the Feculent Touch strikes again!
KEY WORDS: Trump, Monroe Doctrine, Dumbroe Doctrine, Feculent Touch, Venezuela, Oil, Greenland, Denmark, NATO, European Allies, China, Mark Carney, Davos
COMMENT: Trump’s wild ride to distract us from Epstein and Jack Smith’s testimony has culminated in destroying the international rules-based world order. Where do we go from here?
- America Exit World Stage Left
- Venezuelan Oil Money Keeps America Free of Drugs
- Trumpland, Expanding for Expansion Sake!
- Doing Better Without US
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One thing that the Orange TACO Stain can be relied upon for is that if you give him enough rope, he’ll shoot everyone in the gonads and blame… let’s see, whose the enemy du jour, oh yes, Jack Smith. Unable to hold two thoughts in his head at once, he reveals his most significant fear in his posts. He has been attacking Jack Smith relentlessly in the run up to his public testimony on his social media as well as spewing word salad about Greenland… Or is it Iceland. I can’t be sure after that grab garbage bag of a Davos speech he gave. Maybe he’s even unsure at this point. It wasn’t a picture of an elephant or camel and it wasn’t man, woman, person, camera, TV so it doesn’t count as evidence of his cognitive decline.
Now that the threat to Greenland and NATO has receded somewhat, at least until Trump needs to distract from the release of the Epstein files again, let’s tally up the idiocy of the Dumbroe Doctrine as he’s enacted it.
America Exit World Stage Left
Since World War II, the United States has been a super power. Since the fall of the USSR, the US has been the world’s lone super power. We’ve been able to project our military might, our economic supremacy, and our values all over the world. Frequently, in several places at once. No other country in the history of the world has been able to do so.
By agreeing to resurrect the nineteenth century Monroe Doctrine as the Dumbroe Doctrine, Trump has swapped our role as world super power for a role as regional power, effectively withdrawing the US from engagement in Asia, Europe, and Africa, and maybe Antarctica, space, and the Moon.
In effect, El Gran Narcisista has diminished us on the world stage equating us with Russia, China, and Europe. That’s some power move there, Don Donaldo takes us down a notch in order to shake down Venezuela for $500 million in the equivalent of a Swiss bank account in Qatar and whatever he could get for Greenland. It’s not like He’s sold us dirt cheap or anything.
Venezuelan Oil Money Keeps America Free of Drugs
The Caribbean Sea is a Ghost Town
The Wrecking Ball announced that his Caribbean Venezuelan boat interdiction practice had reduced the influx of drugs by boat by a hyperbolic 96%, telling a clearly dubious Mark Carnay that he’d saved 100,000 American and Canadian lives. He went on to add that “there are no boats anymore, frankly there are no fishing boats, there’s no boats out there period.” So, the world’s super power has bullied the fishing fleet of an impoverished nation out of the sea! Totally worth the crimes against humanity to do it. Totally, right?
Drowning in Petrodollars
In a jactation made earlier this month, he said that he had stashed $500 million US dollars in a Qatari bank account from the sale of Venezuelan oil! Clearly thinking that we’d all be going to bed wet-dreaming of being awash in pétrodollars like some common Saudi prince able to buy as many bone saws as our little hearts desired. Of course, these accounts are accountable to no one and are far from any claims that any of the oil companies jilted by the nationalization of the Venezuelan oil industry in the 70’s, which according to Trump, were the fault of the oil companies and, therefore, not deserving of reimbursement despite the legality of the claims. Always be closing, right Donnerino? Winning friends and influencing enemies the way that Papa Cohen
The Economic Madness of Venezuelan Oil
Standing in the way of Trump’s dream of choking the world with Venezuelan oil some sad economic news. First, oil isn’t selling at a high enough price to make it profitable. It sells for $60.00 – $65.00 (US) per barrel. As I understand it, it will cost more than that to return Venezuela to oil production despite Chevron — the only US oil company still operating in Venezuela — claiming that it could expand its operation by 50% in two years. There’s lots of infrastructure that needs rebuilding and replacing and tons of safety concerns for any of the personnel who would be involved. In fact, Chevron says that it is primarily concerned with keeping its 3,000 employees in Venezuela safe at the moment.
And second is supply and demand, an economic law that cannot be gaslight or intimidated. The more oil that is put on the market, the cheaper it becomes. So, right after the maximum investment in Venezuelan oil comes plunging revenues. It’s the same math that resulted in drug prices falling by 500%, amirite? Our very model of a modern major jenius!
Nationalization of Venezuelan Oil and Gas
What’s the old saying? Fool me once, shame on you! Fool me twice, shame on me! Fool Trump a third, fourth, and fifth time, the resulting disaster is blamed on some useful idiot! Isn’t that the way the saying goes? That’s pretty much what ExxonMobile said after their great illustrious White House meeting with the Stable Jenius. “We’ve lost gobs of cash in Venezuela in 1976 when they naturalized their oil and gas industry and then again in the early 2000’s when Hugo Chavez took over the country., so nah!
How Much You Wanna Bet?
The Feculent Touch: Take over a country’s useless-no-longer-needed natural resources that cannot be produced at a profit. How much you wanna bet that that we’re never going to hear about Venezuelan oil and that the money in those accounts ever heard again?
Trumpland, Expanding for Expansion Sake!
How can we have successfully implemented the Monroe Doctrine if Denmark still maintains a colony in our hemisphere?!? Hunh? Riddle me that libtards! Of course we have to drive the Danes out! Sssh! Don’t no one tell them about St. Pierre and Miquelon, the French held archipelago off of Newfoundland or he’ll be after that next.
We’ve already covered what makes this dumbass move so central to the Dumbroe Doctrine. Not only does the US not gain any tangible benefit from taking possession of Greenland, we lose lots of benefits, like the NATO alliance.
Once Europe stood up to the bully by threatening us with a trade bazooka — What? Not fair! Who brings a bazooka to a tariff fight?. And, who knew that they learned anything from Chamberlain? — The Living Grievance walked away with a “framework” for resolving the conflict negotiated with someone who doesn’t have the ability to negotiate it. Are you tired of winning yet?
Cosplaying as Teddy Roosevelt, Trump sure did drive the European colonizers and influencers out of our Western Hemisphere. Stephen Miller must be taking victory laps around the White House.
Doing Better Without US
Just like when you bump into your ex, you try to pretend that you are doing great without them, the rest of the world is looking around for other trade and political partners to do things with, to fill the void that Trump is carving out of the heart of the world order.
Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, gave a blistering speech at Davos basically saying that the rules-based international order is over — he also said that it never really existed, but, like the love of a cat, it was close enough that we could pretend — and that we all had to fend for ourselves. The countries of the world had to make alliances based on shared interests on issue-by-issue basis depending on whose interests matched up best. So, he marched over to China and swapped Chinese EVs for Canadian canola oil. Unlike our Be-Best Negotiator who gave up our Chinese soybean market with nothing to replace them with, we haven’t sold them a single soybean for five straight months. We’re waiting by the phone for a call that ain’t ever coming. China has moved on to other soybean suppliers, dude. In fact, everyone has, so suck it, soybean farmers! America is GREAT again!
Like Carney said, the damage is done, it’s time to begin building something new. Unfortunately for the US we’re stuck avennging El Gran Narcisista’s greatest hits of grievances delusional and real. while the rest of the world is moving on.
The Dumbroe Doctrine everybody. The Dumbroe Doctrine.
Image Attribution
This image is from Nara & David’s Public Domain Archive found using a Creative Commons search and modified by me.
The Psy of Life 
Nothing about Donny’s foreign policy is sound…..never has the US brought about regime change that has ended well. BTW why is the oil cash in an offshore bank? chuq
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Howdy Chuq!
What is clear from the past week is that Trump needs to be removed from office. We need to remove all Republicans from office, if you watched the Jack Smith hearing. CHeesus. Just ridiculous.
Huzzah!
Jack
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1. The Myth of the “Lone Superpower” Efficacy
The argument suggests that projecting military might across every continent simultaneously is a sign of health. In reality, this “unipolar moment” resulted in decades of forever wars, trillions of dollars in national debt, and a hollowed-out industrial base. To characterize a return to prioritized interests as “diminishment” ignores the fact that a superpower that cannot secure its own borders or maintain its own infrastructure is a superpower in name only. Redirecting focus is not a retreat; it is a necessary consolidation of resources to ensure long-term survival.2. Geopolitical Realignment, Not Withdrawal
Labeling a shift in foreign policy as the “Dumbroe Doctrine” fundamentally misreads the current global landscape. The 21st century is no longer unipolar. By demanding that allies in Europe and Asia contribute their fair share to their own defense, the U.S. is not “withdrawing”—it is ending a cycle of dependency that has allowed other nations to thrive economically at the expense of the American taxpayer. This isn’t “taking us down a notch”; it is acknowledging a multipolar reality and refusing to be the world’s unpaid security guard.3. Pragmatism Over Performance
The critique focuses on “shakedowns” and transactional diplomacy (such as the mentions of Venezuela or Greenland). However, a stern rebuttal would argue that transactionalism is more honest and effective than the “values-based” interventionism of the last thirty years, which often left regions in chaos (e.g., Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan). If the U.S. leverages its influence to secure tangible economic benefits or strategic assets, it is acting in the interest of its citizens rather than the interests of a globalist elite or a military-industrial complex.4. Sovereignty is not Narcissism
To dismiss a “Nationalist” foreign policy as mere narcissism is a superficial reading of history. Every Great Power in history has eventually collapsed due to imperial overstretch—the attempt to be everywhere at once. By prioritizing regional stability and domestic strength, the U.S. is positioning itself to be a sustainable power for the next century, rather than a flickering candle burning at both ends in every corner of the globe.
I might (and might not) address the rest of your post at a later time. This requires a lot of thinking.
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Howdy John!
You’re defending the Trump administration? I’m not going through a point-by-point debate here, but I will say that we’ve gotten a lot more out of the rules-based international world order than we put into it. It has sustained us in so many ways, but especially financially. Those are our markets that Trump has destroyed through his tariffs. In spite of our foreign policy errors, the world is a safer place where people are less likely to die violent deaths or from diseases. The fact that we haven’t been able to maintain our own infrastructure has nothing to do with our foreign policy or involvement in the world.
You’re just wrong on all points. It is astonishing.
Huzzah!
Jack
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I don’t know if we will have to worry about dying from diseases or not..if RFK has his way, vaccines will be history and research is already becoming history and we may end up fending for ourself and dying from whatever bug surfaces; and on another front, there is a deadly disease already on the loose on the streets of Minneapolis and I am sure it will cause a lot more death and destructon as time goes on because…there is nobody to halt it …nobody willing and nobody able …
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So, on Tuesday the equities markets spoke (shrieked?) loudly enough about the tariff threats and war threats to be heard by the Dear Leader, and maybe that Senator counting impeachment votes if he were to invade Greenland (or some other NATO ally?) was right.
If you knew the markets would panic (very predictable except for timing), and that the threats would be (also predictable) walked back, you could have made a pile of money. But, as we know, nobody does insider trading, right?
One of the NPR afternoon shows had John Bolton on. Damn, I feel soiled having to agree with that guy about anything, but his assessment of Trump is too good. He offered one very serious bit of advice, not to begin impeachment unless all the needed votes to impeach and convict and remove are locked in. The failed impeachments only made him worse, and another one would too.
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Howdy Bob!
You and Bolton are right. Trump’s reelection and impeachments have just emboldened him. He feels affirmed by it all. It’s one reason he’s been so insufferable, but he’ll just keep escalating until he meets a limit.
But, he needs to be removed. He is so unfit for office. God, this is insane. Did you watch any of the Jack Smith hearing? Goodness, how can Republicans even?
Huzzah!
Jack
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I didn’t watch Jack Smith, but knowing what I do of him – the very model of a straight arrow, meticulous, non-partisan, unflappable, methodical, LAWMAN, the notion of any of those Republicans trying to trip him up, get his goat, or take him off message is ridiculous. And the fact that so many of them were there on J6 running for their lives and can still behave this way is both mind boggling and disqualifying for any public office.
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