#regime-change

#regime-change

"Gone is Barack Obama's " Cuban Thaw" and Joe Biden's less-restrictive sanctions. In their places, the Trump administration has apparently adopted a policy of regime change through maximum pressure. If the administration has its way, 2026 will be the final year of communist rule in Cuba - and it intends to achieve this without intervention by U.S. armed forces. 'I don't think we need (to take) any action,' Trump said on Jan. 4."

There was a classified briefing, actually, that lasted for hours, this evening, by those top officials. And the questions are not when it comes to what's next, are not just limited to Venezuela. Who's running it, and what the future of that country is going to look like. We've also heard the President threatening several other nations, just in the last 48 hours alone. Compare what he's been saying lately,

Any lingering doubts about the true motives behind the 2003 invasion of Iraq were dispelled when looters were ransacking Baghdad, carrying off millennia-old artifacts from the Iraqi capital's archaeological museum, while U.S. troops fortified the Ministry of Oilthe only government building left untouched and from which not a single document emerged. The disastrous and illegal invasion, spearheaded by the United States with military support from the United Kingdom

The new year opened with a pair of scenes that illustrated the great divide within the US and the stakes of the ongoing contest over its future. On 1 January, in a star-studded inauguration ceremony of uncommon pomp and optimism, Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist, was sworn in as the new mayor of New York and delivered a speech that declared the era of small government and centrist inhibition to be over, and a new dawn of ambitious social welfare programs to begin.

The United States intervention in Venezuela to abduct President Nicolas Maduro is not law enforcement extended beyond its borders. It is international vandalism, plain and unadorned. Power has displaced law, preference has replaced principle and force has been presented as virtue. This is not the defence of the international order. It is its quiet execution. When a state kidnaps the law to justify kidnapping a leader, it does not uphold order. It advertises contempt for it.

Live updatesLive updates, The United States has bombed Venezuela and toppled Nicolas Maduro, who was seized and taken to New York. After months of threats and pressure tactics, the United States has bombed Venezuela and toppled its president, Nicolas Maduro, who was seized and taken to New York, where he will be put on trial. Maduro arrived on Saturday evening at a military base in the US after his capture by US forces in Caracas.

Since Trump took office for his second term, he has put Maduro squarely in his sights, pursuing a maximum pressure campaign against the Venezuelan regime. He accused Maduro of being behind destabilising activity in the Americas, including drug trafficking and illegal immigration to the US. In July, the US announced a $50m (37m) bounty on Maduro's head, accusing him of being one of the largest narco-traffickers in the world.

U.S. officials who spoke with me on the condition of anonymity to describe Benz's position said he's a special government employee, a type of executive-branch appointee brought in to perform important services for a limited period of time.