{"id":306955,"date":"2026-01-05T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-trumps-action-in-venezuela-is-no-surprise\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T18:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:00:23","slug":"why-trumps-action-in-venezuela-is-no-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-trumps-action-in-venezuela-is-no-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump\u2019s action in Venezuela is no surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/3Lub0sDolg0\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Why Trump\u2019s action in Venezuela is no surprise\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3Lub0sDolg0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Should we be shocked by Donald Trump&#8217;s intervention in Venezuela \u2013 or is it simply an extension of 200 years of Washington foreign policy?<\/p>\n<p>The US stunned the world with the military strikes which led to the capture of the Venezuela&#8217;s president, Nicolas Maduro. Trump then went further by suggesting the US will now &#8216;run&#8217; the country for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>For a leader who&#8217;s positioned himself as a &#8216;President of Peace&#8217; does this move mark a significant shift for Trump? And is this a continuation of the sort of US interventionist foreign policy that has shaped the world for decades?<\/p>\n<p>Niall is joined by Dr Stephen Tuffnell, associate professor of modern US history at St Peter\u2019s College, Oxford, to discuss how this move fits into the history of US foreign policy and which countries could be affected next.<\/p>\n<p>Producers: Tom Gillespie<\/p>\n<p>Editor: Mike Bovill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should we be shocked by Donald Trump&#8217;s intervention in Venezuela \u2013 or is it simply an extension of 200 years of Washington foreign policy? 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Trump then went further by suggesting the US will now &#8216;run&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":306956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128811],"tags":[129047,130714,129915],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-306955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sky-news","tag-donald","tag-shocked","tag-should"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Trump\u2019s action in Venezuela is no surprise | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Why Trump\u2019s action in Venezuela is no surprise for free, here on News ISC. 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