A war of choice has turned into a strategic disaster for Washington.

In January 2026, flushed with the swift, covert removal of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration rolled the dice on a far more volatile and deeply rooted…

This would not be a battlefield defeat. It would be a defeat by choice — the pathology that converted tactical dominance in Vietnam and Afghanistan into strategic failure.

A war of choice has turned into a strategic disaster for Washington.