Putin Wants His Own Monroe Doctrine
By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN When the Union was fighting to preserve itself in the Civil War, the France of Napoleon III moved troops into Mexico, overthrew the regime of Benito Juarez, set up a monarchy and put Austrian Archduke Maximilian von Habsburg on the throne as Emperor of Mexico — one month before Gettysburg.Preoccupied, the Union did nothing.At war’s end, in 1865, however, at the urging of Generals Ulysses S. Grant and William Sherman, the Union sent 40,000 troops to the Mexican border.Secretary of State William Seward dispatched Gen. John Schofield to Paris with the following instructions: “I want you to get your legs under Napoleon’s mahogany and tell him he must get out of Mexico.”The U.S. troops on Mexico’s…Continue Reading