Opinion: In Venezuela and Cuba, President Trump risks repeating the miscalculation he's made in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz: thinking bold strikes automatically yield regime change.
Iran鈥檚 response to the U.S. military strikes 鈥� the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, shutting down much of the world鈥檚 oil shipping with alarming ease 鈥� suggests Trump made a grand miscalculation. And, on the latest episode of Americas Decoded, SA国际传谋鈥檚 Americas editor Tim Padgett says it鈥檚 something that could define his legacy. That鈥檚 because he鈥檚 got two other potential Hormuz-shaped debacles developing in his own hemisphere: in Venezuela and Cuba.
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