The U.S. sphere of influence is bigger than it looks

There’s an enticing way to rationalize this month’s extraordinary events in Caracas. It means the return to Spheres of Influence, rather than a rules-based international order. The U.S. enjoys its own sphere in the Americas (under what we must now call the Donroe Doctrine). The extraordinary step of abducting the president of a nation of more than 30 million souls can be taken as a........

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