President Donald Trump’s Venezuela regime change campaign is on the verge of devolving into a strategic, political, and legal disaster. Trump summoned top national security officials and advisors to an Oval Office meeting Monday evening to discuss next steps in a showdown that is slipping out of his grasp, both inside the poor, oil-rich nation and in Washington.
Before the negotiations, Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro proudly danced in front of a large throng of supporters in Caracas in a Trump-style open-air rally, debunking prior reports that he had surrendered to US pressure to leave the nation. “We do not want peace of slaves, nor do we want peace of colonies,” Maduro has stated.
The thin domestic political foundations of Trump’s campaign are fraying as the White House attempts to temper a rising backlash over a follow-up US strike that purportedly killed remaining crew members of an alleged drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean. Trump’s Democratic critics on Capitol Hill are warning of a possible war crime. And other strong Republicans are unsettled, showing a rare readiness to conduct a thorough investigation into the administration.
The US standoff with Venezuela is now consuming Washington after more than four months of escalating political, economic, and military pressure, exemplified by the presence of the world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, and an armada of US ships in Venezuelan waters.
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