The January 3, 2026 nighttime raid on Caracas that culminated in the capture of Nicolás Maduro was shocking only to those who misunderstood Donald Trump’s foreign policy from the start. For a decade, Trump has been miscast as an isolationist or a retrenchment-minded president eager to withdraw from the world. The reality is more complicated: Trump was never opposed to the use of American power abroad per se, but to open-ended engagements justified by high-minded moralizing.
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