# Don-roe Doctrine **Domain:** U.S. Foreign Policy / Hemispheric Strategy **Doc Type:** Doctrine Node **Maturity:** Developing **Concept Hub:** [[wiki/War With Empire|War With Empire]] **Aliases:** Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine; Donroe Doctrine ## Definition **The Don-roe Doctrine is President Donald Trump's reinterpretation of the [[wiki/Monroe Doctrine|Monroe Doctrine]], asserting U.S. preeminence over the Western Hemisphere to deny "hostile foreign incursion or ownership of key assets" and to secure "access to key strategic locations."** Trump used the coinage after the January 3, 2026, capture of Nicolás Maduro: "The Monroe Doctrine is a big deal, but we've superseded it by a lot, by a real lot. They now call it the 'Don-roe Doctrine.'" ## Two Modalities [[articles/war with empire/Greenland and Freedom City|Greenland and Freedom City]] identifies two demonstrated modalities by September 2026. In the south, **decapitation with administered continuity**: [[wiki/Operation Absolute Resolve|Operation Absolute Resolve]] removed Maduro, Acting President Delcy Rodríguez retained the state apparatus, and Venezuela's oil sector reopened to U.S. investment. In the north, **partition by treaty**: the [[wiki/2026 Greenland Security Agreement|2026 Greenland Security Agreement]] left Danish title in place and transferred security, access, and investment-screening layers to the United States. The agreement's clauses map onto the doctrine's language: "hostile foreign incursion" as the non-NATO military exclusion, "ownership of key assets" as the [[wiki/Adversary Investment Veto|adversary investment veto]], and "access to key strategic locations" as Narsarsuaq, Mestersvig, and [[wiki/Pituffik Space Base|Pituffik]]. ## War With Empire Context [[articles/war with empire/The Monroe Doctrine, the British Substrate, and the Unfinished Decolonization of the Americas|The Monroe Doctrine, the British Substrate, and the Unfinished Decolonization of the Americas]] reads the mature doctrine as closing the hemisphere to strategic dependency on any external center, governed by consent. Secretary of State Marco Rubio: "This is the Western Hemisphere. This is OUR Hemisphere." ## Key Insight **Monroe closed the hemisphere to colonization; the Don-roe Doctrine closes it to adversary ownership of the substrate.** ## See Also [[wiki/Enforcement Credibility|Enforcement Credibility]] · [[wiki/Capability-Based Order|Capability-Based Order]] · [[wiki/Functional Decolonization|Functional Decolonization]] · [[wiki/Resource Sovereignty|Resource Sovereignty]] ## Relationships - **Revises:** [[wiki/Monroe Doctrine|Monroe Doctrine]]. - **Southern case:** [[wiki/Operation Absolute Resolve|Operation Absolute Resolve]]. - **Northern case:** [[wiki/2026 Greenland Security Agreement|2026 Greenland Security Agreement]]; [[wiki/Treaty Partition|Treaty Partition]]. - **Source articles:** [[articles/war with empire/Greenland and Freedom City|Greenland and Freedom City]] · [[articles/war with empire/Trump Orders Capture of Venezuela's Maduro|Trump Orders Capture of Venezuela's Maduro]] in [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [2026 United States intervention in Venezuela](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_intervention_in_Venezuela) (Wikipedia, accessed September 22, 2026). - [US, Greenland and Denmark sign agreement in bid to end Arctic standoff](https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-greenland-and-denmark-sign-agreement-in-bid-to-end-arctic-standoff) (AP, September 22, 2026).