Can US force Iran, Russia exit from Venezuela?
US officials call out Hezbollah’s foothold in South America as Trump aims to wall off the Western Hemisphere from adversaries.
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The Trump administration is pressuring Venezuela’s regime to expel Iranian and Russian military advisers in the wake of the US Delta Force’s abduction of the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, on narcoterrorism charges.
Among a laundry list of justifications put forth by the White House for the legally dubious raid, one message is clear: Washington wants its adversaries out of the Western Hemisphere.
But by leaving Maduro’s authoritarian regime intact, there are fresh questions about how the White House can achieve its demands.
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