1/20/26

It’s interesting to watch Democrats and some Republicans fret over the recent arrest of Nicolas Maduro who has been indicted in a New York court on drug trafficking charges. It’s worth noting that Democrats criticized the first Trump Administration for not doing enough to get Maduro out of power and Biden even increased the bounty on Maduro for information leading to his arrest. But, regime change, no matter how oppressive or illegal a government is; and nation building, no matter how well-intended; has never ended well or with an improved outcome for that country. As former Secretary of State Colin Powell once observed, “You break it, you own it.”