War
Seizing Greenland might be the least popular idea in American political history
President Donald Trump's push to seize Greenland might be the least popular idea in American political history. Is that hyperbole? If so, that's only because reliable and fast public polling is a relatively recent…
Iran’s inflation protests turned into an uprising. Will Trump get involved?
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who made Iran an Islamic republic in 1979, famously said that revolution was "not about the price of watermelons." He held economics in contempt as the science of feeding donkeys. As his…
I once supported regime change in Iraq. That’s why Venezuela worries me.
As one government official after another talks about regime change and the removal of an awful dictator in Venezuela, you can forgive Iraq War veterans like me for being nervous. When I contemplated joining the Marine Corps…
This book shows why invading Greenland would be a dumb idea
Polar War: Submarines, Spies, and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic, by Kenneth R. Rosen, Simon & Schuster, 320 pages, $29 When he first started talking about it, President Donald Trump's desire to take over…
Invading Venezuela for ‘law enforcement’ is an open-ended license for war
Venezuela is well rid of Nicolás Maduro, a corrupt, oppressive, and illegitimate leader who presided over that country's continuing decline after succeeding Hugo Chávez in 2013. And judging from what happened after the…
Did Marco Rubio lie to Congress about Venezuela?
As the Senate considered a resolution that would have blocked the Trump administration from using military force against Venezuela, Secretary of State Marco Rubio reportedly gave a classified briefing to key members of…
Maduro Capture Prompts Congressional Debate Over Trump’s Military Authority
The successful capture of ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in the early hours of Jan. 3 has sparked a debate in Congress over the legality of the executive branch’s use of military force, especially in the Western…
Thoughts on the Capture of Maduro and Trump’s Attack on Venezuela
Nicolas Maduro. (Rayner Pena/EPA/Newscom) Last night, US forces launched strikes on Venezuela and seized that country's dictator Nicolas Maduro, bringing him back to the US to face charges for drug smuggling. Maduro is…
Donald Trump says the U.S. will ‘run’ Venezuela after Maduro’s ouster
The U.S. military captured the Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, during an operation carried out early this morning in the capital city of Caracas. At 1 a.m., residents of the city reported…
Trump did not have congressional approval to capture Maduro in Venezuela
The U.S. military strikes that targeted Venezuela on Saturday morning and the subsequent capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife may turn out to be popular or defensible, given Maduro's history of…
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