Perhaps “do execution strikes work” is the wrong question compared to “in which situations and by which metrics do execution strikes work”… Hmmmm, yes, quite…
If there are circumstances under which decapitation strikes work, and those circumstances are capable of being set up by the Trump white house, then decapitation strikes cannot be dismissed as unworkable because of systemic factors.
His opening offer was to essentially cut off trade with other nations and tie Venezuela’s economy entirely to the US, and this was after they were already terror bombing random fishing boats. I doubt some kind of token anti-drug cooperation would’ve been off the table, which is exactly the kind of thing Trump loves.
Was Maduro proposing letting the US set up a CIA “partnership” with Venezuela?
Perhaps “do execution strikes work” is the wrong question compared to “in which situations and by which metrics do execution strikes work”… Hmmmm, yes, quite…
If there are circumstances under which decapitation strikes work, and those circumstances are capable of being set up by the Trump white house, then decapitation strikes cannot be dismissed as unworkable because of systemic factors.
His opening offer was to essentially cut off trade with other nations and tie Venezuela’s economy entirely to the US, and this was after they were already terror bombing random fishing boats. I doubt some kind of token anti-drug cooperation would’ve been off the table, which is exactly the kind of thing Trump loves.