And it would bring the world back to the late-19th century’s “spheres of influence” where the great powers, now with the U.S. in a leading role, divide the world up for conquest and extraction. This is what the end of the international order, built since the end of World War II, looks like. JIM WATSON via Getty ImagesThis is not what the Monroe Doctrine, which Trump bases his new vision on, was intended for. But the U.S., once upon a time and often with blatant hypocrisy, had at least promoted an international order that aspired to restrain the brutality that visited the world in the first half of the 20th century — no more. Trump and Miller would rather return to their vision of the state of nature that existed before the world learned a bloody lesson.

Source: Huffington Post January 07, 2026 15:48 UTC