The international community is alarmed by Trump’s reckless behavior, which defies both common sense and imagination.
The isolationism that was once a core message of “America First” is yielding ... to a raw expansionism.
When has Washington ever respected the sovereignty of nations when it conflicts with its own interests?
The U.S. is no longer willing to continue as the world’s checkbook.
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[N]either Trump nor Rubio has confidence in the Venezuelan opposition leadership to lead the transition.
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.
What we are witnessing is not merely a foreign policy crisis. It is a stress test of sovereignty itself, staged as spectacle.
[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.
[W]hat comes after Trump is even more dangerous: a world without principles, without red lines.
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.
Trump is working toward his own downfall.