In the framework I have developed for understanding the Global War in Ukraine, Venezuela represents the Latin American flank of a broader contest in which the United States is rolling back Russian leverage not only in Eastern Europe but across multiple theaters simultaneously.
This is what distinguishes the current strategic moment from the episodic interventionism of earlier decades.
The Trump administration is not simply responding to crises as they arise. It is pursuing a coordinated campaign across connected theaters, aimed at dismantling the authoritarian axis that sustains Russian revisionism, in the Middle East through the Iranian campaign, in the Western Hemisphere through Venezuela, and in Europe through the pressure being applied on Ukraine’s neighbors to accelerate their own defense contributions.
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What is harder to sustain is the proposition that there is no strategy here at all, that Trump’s approach to Iran, the Abraham Accords, Ukraine, and now the campaigns in Iran and Venezuela represent nothing more than an assemblage of impulsive decisions driven by personality rather than purpose.
The evidence points in a different direction.
This article totally confuses pursuing the default mindless position of US foreign policy on foreign nations and war with having a longterm strategy.
These are just the default settings of US foreign policy turned up to 11, there is no strategy here whatsoever.
