America was supposed to be done with being “the world’s policeman”. Donald Trump said so repeatedly during his first term, and during his campaign in 2024.

Maga was sick of seeing US troops deployed around the world, of spending billions on conflicts thousands of miles away, of hearing about places they’d never heard of. Donald Trump would put America first.

Today, he announced the United States will be running Venezuela for the foreseeable future – at least until a “safe, proper and judicious” transition, presumably as defined by Trump himself, is possible.

America’s track record of administering foreign countries – always supposedly in their best interests – is hardly a spotless one, nor one that Trump or his supporters have defended. Neither Iraq nor Afghanistan is a shining example of how American administration can fix the problems of a nation. Displacing the dictator has, traditionally, been the easy part.

Trump presumably believes this time will be different, presumably because he is in charge. But he had little in the way of details as to why it would be different, or how it might work – he offered no explanation of how the US will be running Venezuela, let alone any description of why his extraordinary military and diplomatic action was legal under either US or........

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