Any Washington-installed replacement in Venezuela would require sustained support, according to analysts cited by the outlet<\/p>\n
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.
\nThe Pentagon has deployed warships to the Caribbean and has carried out controversial strikes on small boats it claims are involved in drug smuggling from Venezuela. The White House maintains that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is an illegitimate, cartel-linked ruler, fueling speculation that direct military action might be imminent.
\nHowever, should President Donald Trump opt for forcibly removing Maduro, the US would face \u201cfractured opposition elements and a military poised for insurgency,\u201d along with a likely \u201cpolitical backlash at home\u201d for violating Trump\u2019s pledges to avoid new foreign entanglements, CNN argued.<\/p>\n
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Foreign policy hardliners \u2013 including Elliott Abrams, a veteran Republican human rights official who has long supported US-aligned dictators in Latin America \u2013 argue that Washington\u2019s credibility is at stake.
\n\u201cTrump is calling Maduro a narcoterrorist and a drug trafficker, and has assembled a huge armada,\u201d Abrams told the network. \u201cIf he backs down now and Maduro survives, there goes all the \u2018new Monroe Doctrine\u2019 talk and the idea of being supreme in our own hemisphere.\u201d
\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\u2019s 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.
\nAccording to CNN, some Republicans fear that a heavy-handed intervention in Venezuela would alienate voters. \u201cThe American people did not vote for Trump to draw the US into a sustained conflict in Latin America,\u201d a GOP congressional staffer told CNN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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