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Trump asked advisers about invading Venezuela in 2017
(CNN) – President Donald Trump last August asked several top foreign policy advisers about the possibility of invading Venezuela during a meeting about diplomatic sanctions the US was enacting on the autocratic government, a…
- By Jeremy Diamond, CNN
Trump’s aides, including then-national security adviser HR McMaster, vigorously urged him against the notion of a military invasion of Venezuela, warning him it could backfire and explaining that US allies in the…
Taking military action against Venezuela would be a dramatic escalation of the US’s so-far solely diplomatic and…