We had to intervene in Venezuela to preserve the policy of anti-interventionism.
We had to destroy the village to save it.
We had to abandon free-market principles to save the free market system.
We had to attack the Confederacy in order to preserve the Union.
John Davidson, Federalist
... Trump’s Venezuela policy these last three or four months — the
stationing of a flotilla of U.S. warships off the coast, the systematic
targeting of drug boats, the seizure of the oil tanker — was designed to
hew as closely as possible to the anti-interventionist instincts and
preferences of his MAGA base. We are not at war with Venezuela. We have
no occupation force there. And yet Maduro is gone. ...
Maduro just magically disappeared!
