Advertisement“There’s no process in our foreign policy anymore,” said Luis Moreno, a former ambassador to Jamaica and former foreign policy official with years of experience in the Caribbean. Trump has claimed the U.S. will now ”run” Venezuela and be “very much involved” in taking the country’s oil. Trump’s comments suggesting an open-ended military presence in Venezuela have already brought comparisons to the Iraq War disaster. AdvertisementSen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is the only Republican who signed on to the Venezuela war resolution. But Steven Cash, a former CIA official and specialist in intelligence operations, said the “constellation of events” surrounding Trump’s military raid in Venezuela makes this incident stand apart from others.

Source: Huffington Post January 08, 2026 02:34 UTC