In the early hours of January 3, the U.S. military carried out a lightning pre-dawn attack in Caracas, in which Special Forces units abducted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife and swiftly flew them out of the country.
In the wake of this remarkable intervention, which took place 37 years to the day since the capture of the U.S. army’s capture of Panama’s Gen. Manuel Noriega in 1989, commentators have been abuzz with speculation about the likely impacts of the move, both on Venezuela’s internal politics, and on the U.S. position in the world.
Meanwhile, the responses of foreign governments have reflected their relations to the United States and their view of the possibly era-defining turn that U.S. foreign policy has taken under the second administration of President Donald Trump.
Governments in Southeast Asia, a crucial region of competition between the U.S. and its most significant rival, China, have been united in expressing their concern over the U.S.
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