A different, more pro-Latin American version of the Monroe Doctrine

WolfBear

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What if the United States would have adopted a different, more pro-Latin American version of the Monroe Doctrine? Specifically, the US would have judged any European intervention in the Americas on the basis of its own security concerns but also on whether this intervention would have actually been good for Latin Americans themselves. That way, the US's approach in regards to this would have been less paternalistic and more beneficial towards Latin Americans. It would have also prevented unnecessary US imperialism in the region.

What do you think? Realistic? Or not at all?
 

Cherico

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Yeah....that's not realistic.

Latin america would have deeply resented america judging things case by case.

And if the cold war happened any niceness would have to be thrown out the window because this was a match up against the single most evil idiology in human history. Our intervention there wasn't nice but it also saved all of the lives of all the people who didn't die and become yet another causulty of (its not real socialism)

Some times as a hedgemon you cant be nice, you cant be trusting, and honestly historically speaking america was nice by hedgemon standards. For example we didn't treat latin america nearly as bad as spain did.
 

raharris1973

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For example we didn't treat latin america nearly as bad as spain did.

As Spain treated natives?

As Spain treated Creoles of Spanish-European descent? How often were Spain and the US in the 'treating' Latin America business at the same time? Not too often I think.
 

WolfBear

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How often were Spain and the US in the 'treating' Latin America business at the same time? Not too often I think.

I suppose that in an Axis victory TL the Nazis could have supported any efforts by Franco to try reestablishing Spanish influence in Latin America at the US's expense so long as this did not involve a war with the US.
 

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