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Trump's Venezuelan Adventure is not exactly like other American interventions

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Brian Griffiths
Jan 04, 2026
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Donald Trump is hardly the first and won’t be the last President to commit American forces to a nation-building escapade absent Congressionally granted authority.

In October 1983, Ronald Reagan ordere…

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