Ecuadorians reject return of US bases<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\nForeign policy hardliners – including Elliott Abrams, a veteran Republican human rights official who has long supported US-aligned dictators in Latin America – argue that Washington’s credibility is at stake.<\/p>\n
“Trump is calling Maduro a narcoterrorist and a drug trafficker, and has assembled a huge armada,”<\/em> Abrams told the network. “If he backs down now and Maduro survives, there goes all the ‘new Monroe Doctrine’ talk and the idea of being supreme in our own hemisphere.”<\/em><\/p>\nWashington has repeatedly failed at large-scale state-building ventures, despite pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into operations under both parties. President Joe Biden’s term started with a chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan, where American-trained forces collapsed to a Taliban insurgency even before the final foreign troop pullout.<\/p>\n
According to CNN, some Republicans fear that a heavy-handed intervention in Venezuela would alienate voters. “The American people did not vote for Trump to draw the US into a sustained conflict in Latin America,”<\/em> a GOP congressional staffer told CNN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Any Washington-installed replacement in Venezuela would require sustained support, according to analysts cited by the outlet A US-backed regime change operation in Venezuela would plunge the Latin American country into chaos or force Washington into a years-long struggle to keep a replacement government afloat, CNN reported on Sunday. The Pentagon…<\/p>\n
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