The night of Jan. 3 marked a watershed moment in the post-Cold War international order. In an unprecedented move, the United States effectively seized the sitting president of another sovereign state, Venezuelaβs Nicolas Maduro. This came after Washington's carrying out a military operation in northern Nigeria, invoking the familiar yet elastic justification of the βwar on terror.β
Taken separately, each incident might be framed as an exceptional response to extraordinary circumstances. Taken together, however, they raise a far more consequential question: What do these consecutive aggressive actions signal about the trajectory of U.S. foreign policy and the broader international system?
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