There’s something disingenuous about liberal Western media rediscovering that the term “imperialism” also applies to the US. Donald Trump is no radical departure from his predecessors; he simply abandons the pretense of exporting democracy.

It would require a highly selective memory to regard the abduction of Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro and his wife on January 3 as Washington’s return to an imperialist policy that it supposedly abandoned in 1945, or even 1918.

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Barack Obama, who prided himself on having opposed the invasion of Iraq, broke records for the use of remote strikes, especially involving drones. Donald Trump pursued the same course during his first term as did Joe Biden.