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Trump’s new ‘great game’ - Tony Tassell - FT Opinion

 

History rhymes. As Rana Foroohar points out in her latest column, over the past week, we’ve seen many analogies drawn between the Monroe Doctrine and US President Donald Trump’s new imperialism.

But she says what’s happening in Venezuela today, and what may yet happen in Greenland, or in Ukraine or Taiwan (where Russia and China could well take counter-action as a response to what the White House is doing), isn’t only about the protection of America’s backyard, as in the Monroe Doctrine.

“It is about a messier and much more global conflict. For this reason, the historical comparison I’ve been thinking about lately is the “great game” between Russia and Britain in the 19th century,” Rana writes.

 

 

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