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When Trump's big Venezuela oil grab runs smack into reality

The White House is proudly embracing an era of fossil-fuel imperialism when global markets are vastly different

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Team America is back! And keeping with history, has no real plan

Trump's attack on Venezuela leaves a power vacuum and a potentially huge price tag for the US, but lots of opportunities for Wall Street

Tracking congressional criticism of Trump's attack on Venezuela
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Tracking congressional criticism of Trump's attack on Venezuela

So far, only two Republicans have openly criticized the operation, which involved the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro

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4 ways Team Trump reminded us of Bush-Cheney in 2025

From WMDs to bombing Iran, the president who consistently mocked the GWOT is now pushing the same old buttons

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Five restraint successes — and five absolute fails — in 2025

Trump's promise of an 'America First' realism in foreign policy has delivered not a clean break, but a deeply contradictory picture

Aargh! Letters of marque would unleash Blackbeard on the cartels
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Aargh! Letters of marque would unleash Blackbeard on the cartels

In order for Congress to shirk its duty to declare a legal war, Sen. Mike Lee would resurrect the age of piracy