If you engage in moral introspection, you could ask yourself how the United States might react to an ever-expanding Atlantic Anti-American Alliance, and specifically to Mexico or Canada joining it. Does any remotely honest adult think we would ever, ever, ever permit such a scenario? I certainly hope not. After all, we don’t even really need to imagine whether the United States would tolerate such a thing. We have this concept called the Monroe Doctrine, which refers to America’s assumption that it gets to act as a singular omnipotent hegemon in the western hemisphere, literally half the globe