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This also builds on top of US gunboat diplomacy going all the way back to the Monroe Doctrine.

These threats cannot be ignored or pacified in the same way as a gunboat firing at a fishing boat.

The likely endgame of this current gunboat diplomacy is similar to Venezuela: the U.

Entire colonies were gained in the age of empire through gunboat diplomacy [1].

I actually doubt the value of modern navies for anything other than gunboat diplomacy, or coastal patrols these days.

Politicians were pretty big on tariffs and land law acts for nearly a century, though they have since declined in favor of gunboat diplomacy.

No amount of gunboat diplomacy will reverse the J-35 production line.

Also, gunboat style (no communication possible) is quite popular online.

A portion of a giant squid was secured by the French gunboat Alecton in 1861, leading to wider recognition of the genus in the scientific community.

Every US regime behaves this way: gunboat diplomacy goes back to the days of the banana republics, it was the United Fruit Company then, and oil today.

This is the US navy resorting to gunboat diplomacy.

Where did I say that gunboat diplomacy was only a US thing?

And TBH US will probably be "fine" as long as US can still gunboat diplomacy.

Well, we're all aware that the term "gunboat diplomacy" has been in use for centuries.

If you can't trust foreign governments any more than they can trust you (you are the foreigner to them, after all), why not just divvy up the world into a bunch of "hunger games" districts and use gunboat diplomacy to keep them in line?

Gunboat diplomacy works, albeit in a different way.