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Well, No.
Trump has a natural, intuitive understanding of the American electorate, but he's always been rather incompetent at foreign policy personally. He clearly realized this after his first term and it has been plain to see that he's outsourced different problems to different people;
This operation, and Venezuelan "policy" in general, has Rubio's pawprints all over it. Remember, Rubio is a Cuban-American from South Florida. Venezuela, being Western Hemisphere public enemy number one after Cuba, has always been in his crosshairs. Here's an article about Rubio, in 2020, meeting with the Venezuela opposition leader for instance. Also, here's a 2020 Politico article calling this out specifically.
Trump is still a lame duck. The midterms, which are ten months away, are not going to be full of campaigning on "Caracas Hawk Down!" For a bizarrely chronologically similar parallel, reference the Soleimani raid over New Years in 2020. How did that go for Trump's re-election? The economy is probably already down bad but some creative accounting and a flaccid rate cut are plugging the dam for now. The Special elections this november in VA and elsewhere ... didn't go well. And, to find whatever the opposite of the silver lining is, this strike on Venezuela has some pretty not fun open questions regarding AUMFs and War Powers.
It’s a difficult comparison to make, given that the combination of the ‘Ronavirus and the George Floyd riots was such an unexpected and overwhelming black swan that quickly swallowed up everything else. It’s easy to look back at it and declare it a big nothingburger, but it was basically an order of magnitude bigger than 9/11 and the LA riots combined.
The Soleimani raid or COVID?
COVID
Then I don't understand your original comment at all.
I’m saying the Solemani thing ended up getting overshadowed by COVID happening shortly after. That’s part of why it had no effect on the election.
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