The issues with Venezuela are more than a decade old. So why did Trump do what he did now?

Trump 1.0 was an accidental presidency where institutionalists, many with a military background, held sway. Breaking away from Pax Americana was not their way. Trump 2.0 has no such guardrails writes Mr Manjeev Singh Puri, Distinguished Fellow, Sustainable Development and Outreach Division, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).