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After Venezuela: Where will Trump strike next?

If the United States were truly to begin treating the territories that Trump and his advisers have mentioned over the past several days as potential targets of future military operations, the international reputation of the U.S., the integrity of the NATO alliance, and the last remaining fragments of the old
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Venezuela as Afghanistan?

Does Trump’s spectacular abduction of Maduro and the attempt to establish a puppet regime in Venezuela—aimed at expelling primarily Chinese, and then Russian and Iranian investments—resemble the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan more than the American aggression in Panama?
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Silent threat: Albania’s military reforms

If Croatia is the brain and political center of the new Balkan trilateral alliance, and Kosovo its striking fist, then Albania is its backbone. Tirana is the most stable, the most predictable in its moves and—paradoxical as it may sound—the most dangerous component of the Balkan puzzle.