Source: The American Prospect
by Robert Kuttner
“There has been a huge amount of groupthink on the part of critics of Trump’s smash-and-grab operation to capture and prosecute Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro. The critics make the obvious point that the incursion violated Venezuela’s sovereignty and international law; that Trump’s reversion to 19th-century colonialism and spheres of influence is an invitation for Putin and Xi to do likewise in their spheres; and that America’s adventures in nation building, long disparaged by Trump himself, have seldom worked out well. There is also near-universal commentary to the effect that Trump has no clear plans for the morning after. … But reading slightly between the lines, it’s evident that there is the concept of a plan, to use Trump’s idiom.” (01/05/25)
https://prospect.org/2026/01/05/what-if-trump-pulls-this-off-venezuela-rodriguez/