The last successful US foreign policy gambit was in Panama.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
The claim is the poster's subjective judgment that Panama (1989) was the last successful US foreign policy venture, offered as criticism of US foreign policy. The sources document the 1989 invasion of Panama and other interventions, but none grades any of them as a success or failure or identifies a 'last success,' so the claim cannot be checked.
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… No one needs any of these things, but as the Russian economy continues to do very well, building new trading blocks, the US. Is looking worse and worse. Every foreign policy gambit of theirs has been a failure. I think the last success was what, Grenada, or no, Panama? That was about the last success. Everything else has been a miserable failure, from Iraq to God knows, Afghanistan, Somalia, um, the Israeli morass right now, and now, of course, um, the extreme unpopularity of of liberalism and liberal economies in the Western world, especially in the, in …
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Context. Multiple sources describe the 1989 US invasion of Panama that ousted Manuel Noriega and its aims, including restoring democracy and protecting the Canal, but none rates it a success.[1][2][3]
Context. Sources describe Grenada (1983) and other US interventions in Latin America without assessing whether any of them succeeded, so the 'last success' ranking has no basis in the record.[3][4]
Context. A 2026 source describes a later US intervention in Venezuela, which the sources do not evaluate as a success or failure, so it cannot be ranked against Panama.[5]
Sources
5 sources: 1 primary, 4 not rated
- 1Panama - Countries - Office of the Historianhistory.state.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 2Panama - Invasion, US, 1989 | Britannicabritannica.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 3Modern History and U.S. Foreign Policy: The Americas | CFR ...cfr.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 4Americas, Modern U.S. Security Policy and Interventionsencyclopedia.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 5Hubris in American History: Trump is not an Anomalythecairoreview.com · not rated · cited for: context
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