Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, with U.S. President Donald Trump at the G7 Summit in June in Kananaskis, Alta.Mark Schiefelbein/The Associated Press

The monster of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, is gone. Good. Most can agree on that, despite the trashing of international law employed by the Donald Trump administration to get him.

But as the predator President of the United States warns of toppling other nations – which, for one thing, distracts from afflictions in his own broken country – the task will be much more difficult.

Among the leaders of other places in his sightline – Greenland, Cuba, Colombia, Panama – none are international pariahs like Mr. Maduro, who maintained power by force. Excepting Cuba, they are all democratically elected. Aggression against any of them will prompt far more opposition.

The expertly executed abduction of Mr. Maduro has not given Mr. Trump the boost in the polls that was expected, either. Americans aren’t buying the White House propaganda that he was a threat to them.

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