By Stephen Collinson, CNN
Photo: MANDEL NGAN / AFP
Analysis - Look out, world.
One of President Donald Trump's longest-serving White House aides today gave the clearest explanation yet of an epochal shift in America's global role, as the administration charts a brazen course after decapitating Venezuela's regime.
"We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else," deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller told CNN's Jake Tapper. "But we live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power," Miller said.
"These are the iron laws of the world."
Any US allies still in denial after the first wild year of Trump's second term should listen to something else Miller said. "We're a superpower. And under President Trump, we are going to conduct ourselves as a superpower."
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His comments came in the context of questions about Trump's claims to be running Venezuela following the daring US special forces raid that snatched President NicolΓ‘s Maduro and sent him to a court hearing in New York.
They also followed warnings by Trump on Sunday of possible fresh action against other nations. He specifically threatened Colombia; he also said Mexico needed to "get their act together." Trump also recently pledged that Iran would "get hit very hard" if it killed protesters.
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