"I don't like the idea of an offensive war, I don't like the idea of regime change. It's really one of the things I liked about Donald Trump was that he was against the Iraq war, he was against the war in Libya. He was against the war because often regime change leads to chaos, and great expenditures both in lives and in treasure. So I hope that's not what's coming, but it certainly looks like it's a possibility."
"Well, the alternative is a a messy world where we say, You know what, we don't always we're not always able to establish perfect government everywhere. I mean, Colombia has a left-leaning socialist as well. South America at any point in time has three or four socialists running the countries, but it hasn't been our policy to say, Oh well, socialism is terrible and it's ruinous versus people, which is true. But we don't typically go in and just replace people."
U.S. strikes on alleged drug runners and a major military buildup in the Caribbean raise the prospect of an invasion of Venezuela. Offensive wars and regime-change operations often produce chaos, significant loss of life, and large expenditures. Opposition to invasive regime change follows previous U.S. positions against the Iraq War and the Libya intervention. An alternative approach accepts an imperfect international order in which socialist-leaning governments exist without U.S.-backed replacement. A policy of nonintervention reduces the obligation to install perfect governments worldwide and lowers the risk of destructive military interventions.
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