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The Guardian - US
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Robert Tait in Washington

Why is Trump, the self-proclaimed ‘president of peace’, aiming to topple the Venezuelan regime?

a boat in water
An alleged ‘narco-trafficking’ boat in the Pacific Ocean before a US military strike on it on Tuesday. Photograph: US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's X Account/AFP/Getty Images

It was a solemn pledge at the heart of Donald Trump’s “America first” appeal.

A “Make America great again” (Maga) foreign policy would mean the end of military commitments that had in the past sucked the US into draining and drawn-out wars far from its own shores.

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