News in brief 2026

In an interview with “radio3 am Morgen,” Christian E. Rieck ventured the following thesis: The Trump administration has successfully tested a new template for regime change in Venezuela. The military success of this surgical operation will encourage it to try this elsewhere—this is a signal to the region to take the US's renewed claim to power very seriously. This fear-based gunboat diplomacy to enforce economic interests is naked superpower politics, with a modus operandi that dates back to before the Cold War.

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