Ledger · 2024 campaign · № 199
End the forever wars — instead, regime change in Venezuela
Broken“[paraphrase] I will end the forever wars and keep us out of new ones.”
- Promised
- , Republican National Convention acceptance speech, Milwaukee
- Re-promised
- 25 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Foreign policy
- Era
- 2024 campaign
What happened
In early January 2026 U.S. forces assaulted Caracas, capturing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife; 80 Venezuelan and Cuban citizens were killed by U.S. gunfire and airstrikes. Trump then said the U.S. would 'run' Venezuela's government for an indefinite period, with no stated plan for governing 28 million people. By September 2026 the administration had also ordered strikes in Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, and Rep. Jason Crow introduced a war powers resolution to rein in the Venezuela operation.