Removing Unfriendly Leaders
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The Trump administration appears to have embraced a new foreign policy tactic: getting rid of leaders it doesn’t like. Here’s how that can go wrong.
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These sorts of strikes are a tactic often used in counterterrorism, where the goal isn’t to replace the leadership, but to destroy and dissipate a group. That makes them an awkward fit for states: There is no destroying and dissipating Venezuela or Iran. And so any attempt to remove the leadership needs to account for what’s going to come next.
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