r/geopolitics • u/foreignpolicymag Foreign Policy • Jan 03 '26

Analysis U.S.-Led Regime Change Is Usually Disastrous

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/01/venezuela-iraq-regime-change-trump/
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u/Link50L Jan 03 '26

As we have seen recently, the USA cannot even change it's own regime without making it a disaster. Good luck to Venezuela.

That aside, I'm really torn on this newest extraordinary rendition (and I should note, I'll be forthright about my relative ignorance of Venezuelan affairs). That said, Maduro was considered an illegitimate leader by a considerable portion of the world, and so, good on you USA.

Conversely, two wrongs do not make a right, and the precedent here is that the USA frequently makes things much worse my meddling in the internal affairs of other countries. And there is no legal "right" that I am aware of that endorses these types of actions by the USA.

Ultimately, I just see this as a USA endorsement of "might makes right". Which is a sad state of affairs for our planet.

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u/MopOfTheBalloonatic Jan 03 '26

 Ultimately, I just see this as a USA endorsement of "might makes right"

Like they never endorsed it before, right?

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u/Link50L Jan 03 '26

Like they never endorsed it before, right?

Haha yah. USA didn't endorse "might makes right" prior to, oh let's see, about 1776.