Ummm. I don't know how to process today's events on Venezuela [View all]

Obviously, time will tell how this will unfold and how Venezuela will respond, if ever.

For now, I'm trying to understand how this changes the political environment.

Trump stole another country's president, and the operation was successful. There were no casualties. It went as well as you'd hope a military operation would go. To me, that is points in Trump's favor. He greenlit a brazen military mission and nothing went wrong. He and that party will completely brag about how they cleanly captured a dictator and "freed" the people of Venezuela.

Beyond that, I can't help but think about whether this will change the political environment in Trump's favor. And it makes me think about what he'll keep doing because this man keeps finding new ways to surprise me (and not in a good way).