"But Trump's move to abduct Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and announce that the US will run the Latin American country has drawn comparisons with the regime change wars that he built a political career rejecting. Some critics from Trump's Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, who backed his message of focusing on the country's own issues instead of conflicts abroad, are criticising Washington's march to war with Venezuela."
"As I have often said, it is in America's national security interest to deal with the drug caliphate in our backyard, the centrepiece of which is Venezuela. Graham's reference to a drug caliphate seems to play on Islamophobic tropes and promote the push to liken the US attacks on alleged drug traffickers in Latin America to the so-called war on terror."
Donald Trump positioned himself as a break from traditional hawkish US foreign policy when he launched his 2015 presidential campaign. His recent abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and declaration that the US will run Venezuela evoked comparisons with past regime-change wars. Some MAGA critics who urged focus on domestic issues criticized the push toward war with Venezuela. Most Republican legislators praised the action, including Senator Lindsey Graham, who urged pride in liberating Venezuela and framed Venezuela as the centrepiece of a drug caliphate in America's backyard. Graham's language invoked Islamophobic tropes and likened anti-drug actions to the war on terror. Even some Republican intervention skeptics applauded the abduction.
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