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It’s early days, but the Trump administration’s approach to a post-President Nicolás Maduro Venezuela is quickly coming into focus. This is not externally imposed democracy building but a regime management project that relies on compliant regime insiders, the existing state security apparatus, and offshore coercive leverage. As I argued previously in these pages, removing the apex of an authoritarian pyramid does not dissolve the pyramid.
What changes is who gets to set the terms for the people still holding it up.White House adviser Stephen Miller made the premise explicit on national television when he declared that “the United States of The post After Maduro: Trump’s Managed Authoritarianism Trap in Venezuela appeared first on War on the Rocks .
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