Source: The American Conservative
by Eldar Mamedov
“The Trump administration’s deployment of more than 4,000 sailors and Marines to the southern Caribbean — reportedly to combat drug cartels — marks a dangerous escalation in its policy toward Venezuela. While President Donald Trump is right to identify transnational criminal networks as a threat to the health and safety of the American people, this militarized approach ignores strategic realities, contradicts intelligence assessments, and risks repeating the errors of past interventionist failures.” (08/26/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trumps-doomed-venezuela-militarism/