Trump, Venezuela and the Roosevelt Corollary

Painting by Polish artist Tadé Styka circa 1909 – Public Domain

Theodore Roosevelt was one of our most interesting and progressive presidents.  Donald Trump is uninteresting and uninterested to the extreme and is a political obscurantist.  Nevertheless, Trump’s illegal invasion of Venezuela will ineluctably link him with Roosevelt and the Roosevelt Corollary from 1904.

U.S. citizens are generally familiar with the Monroe Doctrine of 1823, particularly in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.