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Venezuela, Grand strategy, Western Hemisphere

January 3, 2026

The U.S. will ‘run’ Venezuela for now, Trump says after armed assault on capital

“I am concerned about what comes next, because it’s clearly not over and it has a lot of ways it could go wrong,” Jennifer Kavanagh, a senior fellow and director of military analysis at the Defense Priorities think tank told Defense One. “But I’m also worried about the precedent that it sets going forward, because if the U.S. can go in and declare your leader illegitimate, arrest him, remove him, and then occupy the country—then why can’t other countries do that?”

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