[jann]

I'm very sorry but I really don't like that argument. That doesn't make it any less ghastly for others to be like that as well.

The argument you bring seems similar to what people say about the Crimea-Crisis (that 'the west' isn't allowed to complain because of Bosnia). Just because 'the west' interfered illegally in Bosnia, doesn't give Russia a free pass to do so as well.

[toyg]

I was just responding to the patronising tone of the comment above, showing how it's rarely the case that such manipulation is directly punished by the masses.

[digitalengineer]

Doesn't the us have the Monroe doctrine? It allows for the invasion of foreign country's when the us feels threatened right?

[dragonwriter]

> Doesn't the us have the Monroe doctrine?

Not really. The particular concern about limiting future expansion of European colonialism at its center (inasfar as the part of it that might justify US action is concerned) hasn't really been a concern really since the early 20th Century, though the name was dusted off by some (misleadingly) in the Cold War for applications of the Kennedy Doctrine within the Western Hemisphere, and the doctrine was explicitly described as being dead by Secretary of State John Kerry last year.

> It allows for the invasion of foreign country's when the us feels threatened right?

Not as actually articulated by Monroe (in fact, if the country was in Europe, its specifically negated some justifications for involvement).