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Trump's isolationism meets his Venezuela exception

Hours after capturing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, President Trump announced the U.S. will "run the country" — acting on a threat he's maintained for years, even as he denounced nation building elsewhere.

Why it matters: Trump built his foreign policy brand on rejecting intervention, repeatedly vowing America would stop toppling regimes and rebuilding nations.


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