Tag: Foreign relations
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Fact-Check: Air Force One Press Gaggle Claims
This fact-checking analysis reveals a pattern of significant exaggerations, unverifiable claims, and some outright falsehoods mixed with occasional accurate statements. This mixture of accurate observations, misleading characterizations, and false claims makes it essential for readers to verify specific factual assertions independently rather than accepting statements at face value.
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Trump Air Force One Press Gaggle: Venezuela Operation and Regional Policy
President Trump confirmed the United States is effectively “in charge” of Venezuela following the military operation that captured Nicolás Maduro, announcing plans for American oil companies to rebuild the country’s petroleum infrastructure. Full transcript.
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Trump Announces Capture of Venezuela’s Maduro in Major Military Operation | January 2026
President Donald Trump announced January 3, 2026, that U.S. Armed Forces successfully captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro in a dramatic overnight military raid. The operation involved 150+ aircraft and resulted in no American casualties.
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Trump’s Venezuela operation captured Maduro, but legal and strategic questions multiply
On January 3, 2026, U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in a pre-dawn raid on Caracas. While the operation succeeded militarily with no American casualties, it triggered intense legal and strategic debates over congressional authority, international law violations, and Trump’s plan to “run” Venezuela.
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Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy: A cross-source fact-checking analysis
The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy represents the most dramatic departure from post-Cold War American foreign policy consensus in modern history—a finding upon which ten distinct sources across the political spectrum largely agree. Released December 4, 2025, the 29-page document abandons the “great power competition” framework that Trump’s own 2017 NSS established with bipartisan…
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Summary of National Security Strategy of the United States of America
The Trump administration’s November 2025 National Security Strategy articulates an “America First” foreign policy framework that prioritizes domestic economic strength, border security, burden-sharing with allies, and regional stability while rejecting what it characterizes as post-Cold War globalism and interventionism.
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Relations with North Korea
The Congressional Research Service has produced a summary and timeline of recent events pertaining to the United States and North Korea relationship.