"The South American country is not Ukraine, nor, for that matter, is it Afghanistan, Iraq, or Libya. But by ordering military strikes to seize dictator Nicolas Maduro, Trump has thrown a country of around 28 million people into uncertainty and tossed aside the most obvious, hard-won lesson of decades of US foreign policy failures: regime-change wars are easy to start and hard to win, much less to turn into anything resembling genuine success."
"So far, Trump has taken step one, if that. He has yet to bring down Venezuela's regime, only to decapitate it, scooping up the man at the top. In his speech announcing the war, however, Trump played the conquering hero. The president boasted at length about the overwhelming military power he had exhibited, as though the United States did not possess a long record of smashing operational triumphs recall shock and awe in Baghdad that gave way to strategic disaster."
Donald Trump praised Vladimir Putin's 2022 actions and later ordered military strikes to seize Nicolas Maduro, plunging Venezuela into uncertainty. The invasion in Ukraine evolved into a nearly four-year war with massive casualties, illustrating the dangers of regime-change tactics. The US succeeded in removing Maduro but has not secured governance or stability. Trump portrayed the operation as an overwhelming military triumph and promised to run Venezuela, including deploying ground troops and exploiting oil resources. He suggested leaving Vice President Delcy Rodriguez in place to facilitate US aims, while Venezuelan officials immediately continued to assert Maduro's legitimacy.
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