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After the Maduro raid, the question is who checks Trump’s risk-taking
The Venezuela operation was a textbook show of US hard power. But these missions can go wrong – and the fallout will not stay in Washington.
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Military build-up continues in Puerto Rico after the US struck Venezuela and captured its president Nicolas Maduro.
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Suppose we set aside, for a moment, all the questions about international law, adherence to the United Nations Charter, and whether Congressional assent was required for America’s intervention in Venezuela to capture the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro.
All these questions have been aired, in varying formulations, in recent days by most of America’s allies and partners. They have voiced concern, so as not to be seen as totally abandoning the global rules-based order, which continues to serve their nations’ interests even in its current limp form. But they have also stopped well short of full-throated condemnation of the operation.
