Trump's Foreign Policy Gambit and Domestic Polling Collapse

Andrew Wilson

Donald Trump is lashing out abroad because he is weak at home. Hounded by a failing economy and unable to shake Epstein, Trump has reverted to a tried-and-tested playbook: a foreign war meant to rally patriotic support for a floundering presidency.

While it might seem too early to say how Americans view the intervention, it appears to have monumentally backfired. A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted January 4–5 found that just 33% of Americans approve of the intervention. That figure is only slightly higher than approval of the Vietnam War in 1973, as U.S. troops were withdrawing from the country.

Public support for military conflicts almost always erodes over time, regardless of circumstances. Venezuela is unique only in how thinly justified the intervention was—perhaps more so than any military action in living memory. Americans will come to despise this war because U.S. involvement will inevitably drag on.

The same Reuters poll found that 72% of Americans worry the United States will become too involved in Venezuela. Their fears are entirely justified. The Maduro trial will be lengthy, and given its recent track record, the Justice Department is all but guaranteed to bungle it. God only knows what kind of chaos the abduction of a head of state has unleashed inside Venezuela itself. According to the president’s own words, the United States taxpayer now bears responsibility for that chaos.

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Trump only listens to his sycophants who kiss his ass daily.