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Trump Has No Plan for Venezuela

Trump Has No Plan for Venezuela

The David Frum Show vor 9 Monaten

David Rothkopf on how the Trump administration’s contempt toward planning all but ensures a mess in Venezuela. Plus: Donald Trump’s predatory worldview and Rudyard Kipling’s “Recessional.”

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On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s
David Frum discusses the American seizure of Venezuelan dictator
Nicolás Maduro and President Donald Trump’s deeply flawed thinking
about Venezuelan oil. David argues that Trump’s worldview of
exploitation and predation is likely to doom his ambitions in
Venezuela rather than secure them. David is then joined by the
national-security analyst David Rothkopf to examine the U.S.
military operation in Venezuela and the Trump administration’s
alarming lack of a coherent plan for what comes next. Rothkopf
explores what it means for a president to sideline or altogether
ignore the National Security Council before launching a major
military action. Together, Rothkopf and Frum speculate about
possible outcomes of the Maduro operation that Trump appears not to
have considered. Finally, David closes with his thoughts on Rudyard
Kipling’s “Recessional” and the poem’s warning about national
boasting, overreach, and the perils of collective foolishness. Sign
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