The administration’s National Security Strategy signals a return to more outwardly interventionist policies.

On Wednesday, December 10, Donald Trump announced that the United States had seized a tanker in the Caribbean carrying more than 1.6 million barrels of Venezuelan crude oil. “Large tanker, very large, largest one ever, actually, and other things are happening,” Trump told the press. The seizure is only the latest move in a long build-up of U.S. military action in the Caribbean and…

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