> why don’t more countries attack, say Costa Rica, which doesn’t even have a military? Because of the Monroe Doctrine [1], which has been applied in some form

> why don’t more countries attack, say Costa Rica, which doesn’t even have a military? Because of the Monroe Doctrine [1], which has been applied in some form or another for the past couple of hundred years. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine