Francesca Chambers

Well, military intervention by the United States could take a lot of forms.

I mean, that could be strikes specifically against the cartels, as we're talking about in Mexico.

Or when you look somewhere like Iran, it could be strikes against nuclear sites and military facilities like the United States did last summer there.

It doesn't necessarily mean that going in and capturing and arresting a leader like what the president did in Venezuela.

I think as we've discussed here, that robust U.S.

military intervention also doesn't necessarily mean American boots on the ground.

Well, that's the concern of critics of the Trump administration, is that if the United States is going to take robust action in the Western hemisphere and assert this updated Monroe Doctrine, which Trump is now calling the Donrow Doctrine, that what's to say then that Russia shouldn't

assert more control in its backyard, or China shouldn't have control over Taiwan.

And the president has suggested more recently that it is up to China what happens with Taiwan, although I wouldn't say that it's a full-scale U.S.

policy at this point.

And the U.S.

has continued to support Ukraine.

And of course, it is also trying to mediate an end to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

But Democratic lawmakers in particular are very concerned about what President Donald Trump has said about this additional U.S.

military action that he wants to take.

And they're asking, where will he potentially strike next?

Well, over the weekend, President Trump and the Trump administration carried out another round of retaliatory strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria after the December ambush that killed two US soldiers.

And so whether or not the president continues to take those strikes in Syria will be one thing.

But the president has also talked about potential strikes in Mexico as another option on those cartels.

And of course, we're looking ahead to see, does he meet with Maria Karina Machado, the opposition leader in Venezuela?