Lawrence Freedman
It is not unusual to make a dramatic step and then hope things will then work out. What was striking in this case was Trump’s confidence that the hard questions about the future have already been answered when they clearly have not.
I followed this up with an article for the New Statesman. With their kind permission, this is reproduced below as the first part of this week’s post. Since writing this there has been more talk from Trump about control over Venezuela’s oil supplies and indications about how the current regime is seeking to manage the situation - but these developments largely reinforce the broad thrust of the article that the administration currently has no viable plan for the aftermath that it can implement.
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