Paul Adams

You're going to involve massive deployment of American military forces, huge diplomatic and economic efforts to put countries back on their proper footing. It hasn't worked in the past. There's no earthly reason to think that it would work again now. And so perhaps the sensible thing is to leave the...

Deeply unpopular, but secure or relatively secure government structure in place. And then instead of trying to remove it and put something else in its place, you merely threaten it to do what you want it to do. And that's why essentially what Donald Trump is saying to the government in Venezuela is, you know, there are still arrest warrants out there. We could still come back in with further evidence.

There are all sorts of ways in which the United States can continue to exert pressure, but regime change and taking over a country, not this time.