Yeah, that is utter bs. The US used it as justification to claim some colonies they wanted such as Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Cuba from weaker imperial powers like Spain and Germany, but simultaneously let their allies such as the UK, keep all their North and South American colonies.
All I heard about that in school was “the Monroe doctrine was when the US stood up against the colonial Europeans for self determination”
Yeah, that is utter bs. The US used it as justification to claim some colonies they wanted such as Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Cuba from weaker imperial powers like Spain and Germany, but simultaneously let their allies such as the UK, keep all their North and South American colonies.