What this administration is doing is internally consistent with how it thinks about power, legitimacy, and time—and it is not a continuation of the Bush-Obama era nation-building model that the media keeps dragging out of storage every time the United States acts abroad.

France is not merely defending borders or laws; it is defending a civic model in which citizenship is individual, secular, and equal. MB-inspired entryism challenges this by advancing communal mediation between the citizen and the state, eroding the universalist foundation of the Republic.

There’s a long-running public record that the U.S. has pursued criminal cases against Maduro and senior Venezuelan figures. The DOJ announced in March 2020 that Maduro and others were charged, describing narco-terrorism / drug trafficking-related allegations (and related conduct). Department of Justice