On January 6, Atlantic Council vice president and Scowcroft Center senior director Matthew Kroenig wrote an article in the New York Times titled “Trump Was Right to Oust Maduro.” He argues that Maduro threatened vital US security interests, and that his removal from power creates opportunity for better governance in Venezuela.
If Mr. Trump had decided instead to simply back down and go home, the Venezuelan people would be left with a dangerous and incompetent leader, the U.S. military and the American government may have lost credibility and the opening for our adversaries to entrench themselves in our hemisphere could have widened.
