Today an illegal coup in Venezuela, but where next? Donald Trump talks peace but he is a man of war | Simon Tisdall
by Simon Tisdall from US news | The Guardian on (#72J6F)
The world will be anxious, and rightly so. For a man so bent on a peace prize, Trump appears to revel in conflict
The overthrow and reported capture by invading US forces of Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela's hardline socialist president, will send a shiver of fear and consternation around the world. The coup is illegal, unprovoked and regionally and globally destabilising. It upends international norms, ignores sovereign territorial rights, and potentially creates an anarchic situation inside Venezuela itself.
It is chaos made policy. But this is the world we now live in - the world according to Donald Trump.
Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentator
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