"David is then joined by the national-security analyst David Rothkopf to examine the U.S. military operation in Venezuela and the Trump administration's alarming lack of a coherent plan for what comes next. Rothkopf explores what it means for a president to sideline or altogether ignore the National Security Council before launching a major military action. Together, Rothkopf and Frum speculate about possible outcomes of the Maduro operation that Trump appears not to have considered."
"I'm David Frum, a staff writer at The Atlantic. My guest today will be David Rothkopf: broadcaster, businessman, journalist, author, but for our purposes today, the preeminent historian of the National Security Council and the foreign-policy process in the United States, author of the 2005 book Running the World, a history of the creation and development of the National Security Council. And we'll be talking about the breakdown of that kind of judicious, careful guiding of American policy under Donald Trump,"
The United States conducted an operation targeting Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro amid a presidential focus on Venezuelan oil and a worldview of exploitation and predation. That worldview is likely to undermine rather than secure U.S. ambitions in Venezuela. The administration launched military action without a coherent plan for what comes next and frequently sidelined the National Security Council, weakening institutional coordination. Analysts identify multiple possible and unanticipated outcomes of the Maduro operation that were not fully considered. Rudyard Kipling's "Recessional" is cited as a warning about national boasting, overreach, and collective foolishness.
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