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The Template Endures—From Polk to Caracas and Tehran

  • Writer: Jeff Kellick
    Jeff Kellick
  • Jan 19
  • 1 min read

Contemporary Application to the Empire of Liberty: America's Foreign Entanglements from the Founders to the Forever War - Ep. 02



This contemporary application episode applies the historical template from Article 2—the Mexican-American War’s pattern of manufactured casus belli, executive manipulation, and marginalized critics—to current events in Venezuela, Iran, and the renewed discussion of American territorial expansion. We examine how the DOJ’s “Cartel de los Soles” claim dissolved when it had to be proven in court, how American objectives toward Iran have continuously shifted, and how current annexation rhetoric echoes the patterns Cleveland warned against in 1893

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