Since 1823, the rulers of the United States have considered themselves masters of the world, with the right to command others and to demand that states and governments obey them. Back in 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt declared that the United States was the international police power. He said it all here, establishing the interventionist policy based on the Monroe Doctrine, which is still "alive and well" today, as former US National Security Advisor John Bolton once said. Initially, this doctrine warned European nations to refrain from invading and intervening in American affairs, but we all know its real purpose, which was later complemented in 1845 by "Manifest Destiny" and its expansionist policy, which for journalist O'Sullivan meant "expanding across the continent that Providence

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