Why Is Trump Targeting Venezuela?
The Trump administration's military strikes on boats in the Caribbean, labeled as part of a war on narco-terrorism in Venezuela, are less about drug interdiction and more a performative, illegal exercise in gunboat diplomacy aimed at destabilizing Nicolás Maduro’s regime. According to Joh
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