This week, Hanna Bilinski and Amanda Stephens weigh in on what they feared would happen, what did happen, and what could happen following the United States' "decaptiation mission" in Venezuela at the beginning of the year.

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The U.S. action in Venezuela: 1. Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro ‘captured’ after huge US military strikes (Al Jazeera Staff and News Agencies, Al Jazeera), 2. Trump plans to use Venezuela’s huge crude reserves ‘to cut US oil price to $50 a barrel’ (Jillian Ambrose, The Guardian)

A Multi-Polar world: 1. An American Strategy for a Multipolar World (Zack Cooper, Emma Ashford, and Nevada Joan Lee, The Stimson Center)