Among those monitoring the situation is Harrison Mann, a 13-year Army officer now with the progressive group Win Without War. Looking at the escalation now and the limited guardrails against it, are you thinking about lessons that could have been learned from the post-9/11 War on Terror? We’ll have to see what votes come out for a war powers resolution against intervention in Venezuela. Sufficient pushback, a climbdown by Venezuela or just Trump volatility are probably our ways out of this, or maybe it’s some combination of all three. If and when this begins, there’s already been a massive economic refugee outflow from Venezuela in part because of sanctions we’ve applied.
