Playbook: “Emboldened by audacious military successes in Iran and Venezuela, President Donald Trump is leaning heavily into his new status as an interventionist, ready to aggressively reshape the world in America’s favor. And with three years to go of this presidency, the end point is anyone’s guess.”
“Top tip: One of the best ways to understand this administration is simply to listen to the president, given that he speaks in public almost every day with little or no filter. But even by his own standards, Trump’s conflab with reporters on his way back to D.C. from Mar-a-Lago last night was one for the ages. A president who once chastised his predecessors for endless foreign wars and fruitless nation-building announced that America is now ‘in charge’ of Venezuela and is ‘going to run everything’ — before casually threatening five more nations around the world with U.S. intervention. He might even mean it.”
Said Trump: “We’re in the business of having countries around us that are viable and successful and where the oil is allowed to freely come out.”
