‘There’s a new sheriff in town’: Inside the Miami conference on Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’

Miami —  We were living in «historic and prophetic times» at the Miami Security Forum."God has anointed President Donald Trump as a modern-day Cyrus,« declared Pastor Mario Bramnick, referring to the ancient king of Persia.Think-tankers, Latin American politicians, officials from the US defense establishment and at least one journalist watched as Bramnick paced the stage of the Donald J. Trump Grand Ballroom at the Trump National Doral, a sprawling golf resort eight miles from the airport and eighteen from the Everglades.For two-and-a-half days in Miami, we were gathered here to review Trump’s foreign policy pivot to the Western Hemisphere — the so-called „Donroe Doctrine,“ a play on the 19th century Monroe Doctrine aimed at keeping European nations out of the Americas. It was a new forum that the Heritage Foundation, an influential conservative think tank, hopes will become a yearly event.There was plenty to discuss. What the White House refers to as the „restoration of American preeminence“ in Latin America has within just a few months seen the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, an oil blockade on Cuba, numerous lethal strikes on alleged narcotrafficking boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, and the designation of drug cartels as terrorist groups.According to the White House, it’s been a „tremendous success“ that has „strengthened our relationships in our own backyard“ and made „the entire region safer."Bramnick favorably compared Trump’s tactics to those under former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama.Under Biden and Obama, Bramnick said, «we saw in the US and Latin America progressive, leftist networks attempting to control foreign policy and steer the Americas and Latin America towards globalism and communism and an anti-Christian agenda.""But certainly, there is a new sheriff in town,« he added. „And things are changing."The new sheriff is, of course, the man with his name by the ballroom door.
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