Source: Antiwar.com
by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
“‘Neocon’ may have become a dirty word, but after a few years, their agenda is back in play. And no doubt many of their players, too. After being banished to the wilderness for plunging the nation into a 20-year war, the neocons fell flat with the Trump base in Ukraine and lost the thread with MAGA in Israel. Venezuela and the Western Hemisphere are another matter. The neocons have evolved, and regime change is back on the menu. How? Rather than pushing ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’ like George W. Bush’s famous second inaugural speech at the height of the Iraq War, neoconservatives have adopted the prevailing MAGA/New Right language of ‘America First’ to inject regime change back into fashion.” (10/27/25)