The End of ‘Strategic Restraint’ : Naked Power returns to U.S Foreign Policy

In the early hours of January 3-4, 2026, the United States breached a line that it had spent decades promising not to cross so brazenly again. U. S. forces launched strikes in and around Caracas and other northern Venezuelan locations, arresting President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores and transporting them to the United States to face criminal charges, according to sources....