“A prince must, therefore, go slowly in undertaking actions based upon the reports of an exile, because most often he will end up suffering either shame or very serious harm.” - Machiavelli [Discourses, II.31]
You have surely heard the war drums beating for Venezuela. It seems as if we are about to repeat the Invasion of Iraq, this time as a farce [as if it wasn’t the first time.] With no clear national security, economic, or humanitarian justification, the Trump Administration has been blowing up random boats for months and claiming the mariners are narcotrafficking agents of the Venezuelan state. Without evidence, Venezuelan President Maduro has been named the head of a drug cartel. Many of Trump’s supporters seems to be reveling in the general desire to be killing s…
