‘Speak softly and carry a big stick—you will go far.” The 26th president of the U.S., Theodore Roosevelt, often used this saying to describe his foreign policy tactics. Described by him in 1900 as a West African proverb, the idea is to negotiate peacefully but simultaneously maintain the threat of the military power. Nearly 120 years later, one can easily see how the U.S. is still pursuing this kind of “big stick ideology” in
