The Federalist By Elle Purnell
When President Donald Trump sent U.S. special forces into Venezuela to capture dictator Nicolás Maduro, it was immediately hailed by some as a brilliant act of international 4-D chess regarding oil/China/immigration and condemned just as quickly by others as a needless excursion into regime-change territory.
In those first few hours, cooler heads acknowledged the awesomeness of the raid’s tactical execution, the United States’ supreme prerogative to do whatever it wants to protect its interests, and also the fact that it would take some time for the geopolitical ramifications of the move to play out. With all the hindsight of two months, it appears to have been a total success, although there are still lingering questions — like, how long are we going to “run” Venezuela and what exactly does that look like?
If cautious optimism was warranted then, it’s all the more appropriate now, a little more than 72 hours after the U.S. and Israel launched an air war against Iran. The results of a war with Iran — good or bad! — will almost certainly be more far-reaching than those of the Venezuela raid. The attack on Iran is far more multifaceted and at a much larger scale than the incredibly executed capture of Maduro. And it will take far longer to play out…
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