The United States’ raid to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro shows President Donald Trump is not afraid of conflict to achieve his foreign policy aims across the Americas

“Whatever Washington’s plans for the future of Venezuelan governance,” the “show of US force in Latin America” (see page 26) looks like “the first manifestation of a more assertive American foreign po

FOUR WEEKS BEFORE THE BEGINNING of his second term as President, Donald Trump abruptly floated the idea of taking back the Panama Canal. It had been a quarter-century since the U.S. formally ceded to

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EVEN THE CANADIANS ARE DRAWING up plans for how they might respond to a U.S. invasion. That’s how spooked global leaders are right now about an unhinged flare of contempt from their typically allied c

DONALD TRUMP RAN FOR PRESI-dent three times pledging to avoid the type of military entanglements that unfolded on Jan. 3: The capture of Venezuela’s leader and his wife was a dramatic break from what