"It also was and is devastatingly revealing about the foreign-policy apparatus of this White House. At the top, of course, is President Donald Trump, who makes his decisions based on caprice and ego rather than strategy or principle. Having spent years lambasting his predecessors for intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, he has now decided possibly spontaneously during a press conference that the U.S. should run Venezuela."
"he now talks mainly about the oil to be extracted from the supine nation. Having called the dictator he snatched, Nicolas Maduro, illegitimate, he has now thrown the presumably legitimate, meaning democratic, opposition leader under the bus, calling her a nice lady who lacks respect. (That nice lady, Maria Corina Machado, recently won the Nobel Peace Prize which he coveted.) Trump now seems content to run Venezuela with the help of satraps from the same illegitimate regime that he just decapitated."
The American attack on Venezuela combined military mastery with legal cynicism, strategic confusion, moral distortion, and uncertain long-term consequences for Venezuela, the Western Hemisphere, and the world. The operation exposed weaknesses and contradictions in the White House foreign-policy apparatus centered on a president who acts from caprice and ego rather than coherent strategy or principle. After years condemning foreign interventions, he announced the United States should run Venezuela and shifted pretexts from a drug-war rationale toward seizing oil resources. The administration declared Nicolás Maduro illegitimate while sidelining democratic opposition figures like Maria Corina Machado and appears willing to govern through allied satraps from the deposed regime. The approach reflects a might-makes-right imperialism that threatens regional relations and tacitly tolerates comparable Russian and Chinese influence elsewhere.
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