On Friday, the self-styled “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth announced the US was sending an

aircraft carrier to bolster its attacks on Venezuelan boats (which the Trump administration

alleges, without evidence, are trafficking drugs). I spoke to international relations scholar Van

Jackson (whose work can be found here) about the motives for this new war as well as the

muted opposition to it from Democrats.

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