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Mark Belk on January 4, 2026

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Now which way will it go in Venezuela, right or wrong!

January 4, 2026

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Notable 19th century interventions included: 1803–1860: The United States purchases the Louisiana territory from France in 1803, expanding its sovereignty west of the Mississippi River and nearly doubling the nominal size of the country across North America. The treaty of 1818 establishes a boundar... View MoreNotable 19th century interventions included: 1803–1860: The United States purchases the Louisiana territory from France in 1803, expanding its sovereignty west of the Mississippi River and nearly doubling the nominal size of the country across North America. The treaty of 1818 establishes a boundary along the 49th parallel north between Rupert's Land and the U.S. In 1853, the U.S. purchases 29,640-square-mile (76,800 km2) of land from Mexico, defining the Mexico–United States border. 1811: U.S. federal agent Joel Roberts Poinsett arrives in Chile to assess the prospects of Chilean revolutionaries during their war against the Spanish Empire, leading the first of many U.S. interventions in Chile. 1846–1848: During the Mexican–American War, Mexico and the United States warred over Texas, California, and what today is the American Southwest but was then part of Mexico. During this war, U.S. Armed Forces troops invaded and occupied parts of Mexico, including Veracruz and Mexico City. 1854: Commodore Matthew C. Perry negotiated the Convention of Kanagawa, which effectively ended Japan's centuries of national isolation, opening the country to Western trade and diplomacy. From 1863 to 1864, U.S. forces participated in the Shimonoseki campaign, a conflict over Japan's open-door policy as a result of Perry's expedition. 1854–1949: The U.S. Navy launches the Yangtze Patrol in 1854, an operation to protect U.S. interests, merchant ships and citizens in China's Yangtze river treaty ports and along China's coast. The mission was permanently ended in 1949 amid the Chinese Civil War. 1858–1859: President James Buchanan dispatched a diplomatic mission and nineteen-ship squadron to Paraguay under the auspices of seeking reparations for previous Paraguayan aggression against U.S. citizens. 1871: The U.S. dispatched an expeditionary force to Korea after failed attempts to ascertain the fate of the armed merchant ship General Sherman, which was attacked during an unsuccessful attempt to open up trade with the isolationist kingdom in 1866. After being ambushed, the 650-man American expeditionary force launched a punitive campaign, capturing and occupying several Korean forts and killing over 200 Korean troops. 1887–1889: U.S. and German naval forces engaged in a months-long standoff over control of the Samoan Islands during the Samoan Civil War. The standoff ended when a cyclone wrecked all six ships involved. The 1899 Tripartite Convention partitioned the islands into American Samoa and German Samoa. 1898: The short but decisive Spanish–American War saw overwhelming American victories at sea and on land against the Spanish Kingdom. The U.S. Army, relying significantly on volunteers and state militia units, invaded and occupied Spanish-controlled Cuba, subsequently granting it independence. The peace treaty saw Spain cede control over its colonies of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the United States. The U.S. Navy set up coaling stations there and in Hawaii. See also: Bath Iron Works 1899: The U.S. advanced the Open Door Policy to guarantee equal economic access to Chin and support of Chinese territorial and administrative integrity. 1898–1935: The United States launched multiple minor interventions into Latin America, resulting in U.S. military presence in Cuba, Honduras, Panama (via the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty and Isthmian Canal Commission),[14] Haiti (1915–1935), the Dominican Republic (1916–1924) and Nicaragua (1912–1925) & (1926–1933). 1901: The Platt Amendment amended a treaty between the U.S. and the Republic of Cuba after the Spanish–American War, virtually making Cuba a U.S. protectorate. The amendment outlined conditions for the U.S. to intervene in Cuban affairs and permitted the United States to lease or buy lands for the purpose of the establishing naval bases, including Guantánamo Bay. 1904: When European governments began to use force to pressure Latin American countries to repay their debts, Theodore Roosevelt announced his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States would not just prevent but militarily intervene in affairs between European and Latin American governments if European pressure resulted in the Latin countries becoming chronically unstable failed states. 1906–1909: The U.S. governed Cuba under Governor Charles Magoon. 1914: During a revolution in the Dominican Republic, the U.S. Navy fired at revolutionaries who were bombarding Puerto Plata, in order to stop the action. 1916 to 1924: U.S. Marines occupied the Dominican Republic following 28 revolutions in 50 years. The Marines ruled the nation completely except for lawless parts of the city of Santo Domingo, where warlords still held sway. 1899–1901: The U.S. organized the China Relief Expedition during the Boxer Rebellion, which saw an eight-nation alliance put down a rebellion by the Boxer secret society and toppled the Qing dynasty's Imperial Army. 1899–1913: The Philippine–American War saw Filipino revolutionaries revolt against American annexation following the Spanish-American War. The U.S. Army deployed 100,000 (mostly National Guard) troops under General Elwell Otis to the Philippines, resulting in the poorly armed and poorly trained rebels to break off into armed bands. The insurgency collapsed in March 1901 when the leader, Emilio Aguinaldo, was captured by General Frederick Funston and his Macabebe allies. The concurrent Moro Rebellion concluded at the Battle of Bud Bagsak in June 1913. 1910–1919: The Mexican Border War along the U.S.-Mexico border saw U.S. forces occupy Veracruz for six months in 1914. U.S. troops intervened in northern Mexico during the Pancho Villa Expedition. 1917–1920: The U.S. intervened in Europe during World War I. Over the next 18 months, the U.S. would suffer casualties of 116,708 killed and 204,002 wounded. U.S. troops also intervened in the Russian Civil War against the Red Army via the Siberian intervention and the Polar Bear Expedition's North Russia intervention. ------------------------------------------ Had to include the earlier regime change.... We been at this shit for a MINUTE.

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