Donald Trump has not read history. He invaded Venezuela [to steal] the country’s oil, as if it were still 1973.

[T]here is an unhinged man driving a monster truck on the highway.

[P]ower politics ... is the principle of the right to use force wherever the interests of the U.S. require it.

Trump appears to be facing a crisis of survival as president.

[W]hat is illegitimate is any attempt to seize the natural resources of Venezuela and impose puppet leaderships on it.

Venezuela is likely to become another wasted crisis, resembling events that followed when the U.S. forced regime changes in Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Trump would also do well to remember Shakespeare line “love cools, friends fall off, brothers divide!”

Iran is not Venezuela.

Trump’s foreign policy is neither ideological nor institutional. It is centralized, personality-driven and oriented toward visible, near-term wins.