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Comment on Venezuela as America’s next foreign policy disaster by archonnovaberner
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Comments for Asia Times
The narco-terrorism frameThe Trump team has cleverly framed this as counternarcotics and counterterrorism rather than explicit regime change.
Trump himself has denied seeking regime change in Venezuela, even as he ordered a large military buildup off Venezuela’s coast.
Third, and most importantly, the Trump administration needs to ask: what’s America’s actual interest here?
The tragedy is that the Trump administration seems to be headed toward regime change by drift rather than design.
Leon Hadar is a foreign policy analyst and author of “Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East.”