You might think that President Kennedy invoked it against Russia during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I happen to believe that was in the back of his mind at the time he told them to get the Missiles out of there!
Well, the entire continent of Africa has united by forming its organization of the African Union to patrol virtually its landed bounders. I would call that organization successful particularly in the peace accord that has been imposed on the Sudan and environs, recently.
But I want to imagine that the entire continent of the Americas had such an organization to embolden the OAS to patrol our continental shores for infractions to the Monroe Doctrine, enunciated by President Monroe in the early Nineteenth Century.
Would then Russia virtually have taken over the government of Venezuela to enable it to plunder that country's natural resources as it would deem fit? Indeed would it think itself invited by its cozying up to beleaguered governments to "rescue" them such as Syria in Asia Minor and of course here on our continent, the nation of Venezuela? We are witnessing a Putin who is enamored with the period of the Czars--so much so as to wish his dictatorship to extend the world over, as was tried by former Russian dictators in a heyday just after WWII onto the African continent.
The immense emigration of peoples living there prior to Russia's assistance in both these countries proves that Russia's interference has been detrimental to their own individual independence and their quest for the well-being of their people. For in each case, their citizenry are driven to run for their lives.
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