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A Colony? An Occupation? No One Knows What to Call Venezuela

殖民地?占领?没人知道该如何称呼委内瑞拉

Across Washington, politicians, diplomats and scholars ares struggling to describe what the U.S. is doing in Venezuela

Across Washington, politicians, diplomats and scholars ares struggling to describe what the U.S. is doing in Venezuela

2026-01-08  1411  困难
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Around Washington, even those who have gotten briefed by the Trump Administration’s most-senior hands overseeing the operation cannot convincingly describe it. The D.C. set lacks a vocabulary to detail what has happened, what is happening, and what they expect to happen next. The problem underlying all three is that none match the known definitions describing past bouts of U.S. ambition abroad. What do you call it when the U.S. seizes the leader of an oil-rich South American nation from his bed and hauls him to Manhattan to face drug charges, but leaves the rest of his leadership intact and warns them that they better do what he wants? In a first for Donald Trump, he is lacking a slogan.

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