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By John R. Bolton

Mr. Bolton was the longest-serving national security adviser in the first Trump administration and is the author of “The Room Where It Happened.”

I didn’t invent the phrase “regime change,” but I know it when I see it. And what is happening in Venezuela now is not regime change. Instead, it recalls aspects of the Bay of Pigs invasion, and the failure of regime change efforts there.

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy’s administration decided to proceed with former President Dwight Eisenhower’s planned strike in Cuba,........

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