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US Military Posturing, Venezuela's Cartel de Los Soles, and Instability in the Americas Professor Evan Ellis analyzed President Trump's escalating military posturing and actions against drug cartels, particularly impacting the Venezuelan regime of Nicolá

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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US Military Posturing, Venezuela's Cartel de Los Soles, and Instability in the Americas

Professor Evan Ellis analyzed President Trump's escalating military posturing and actions against drug cartels, particularly impacting the Venezuelan regime of Nicolás Maduro and the Cartel de Los Soles. Senate members raised constitutional concerns over the use of military force. Ellis also examined political resistance to Argentinian President Javier Milei's austerity measures amid broader instability in the Americas, and noted positive strategic movements toward improved relationships with Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum and Brazil's Lula da Silva.


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This is CBS Eye on the World.

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Here's John Batchelor.

0:48.0

In the New World Report, Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute,

0:57.3

and I need Evans' attention ever the more because the news in the Americas is dynamic and non-transparent. For example,

1:05.2

U.S. Senate blocks debate on ending military action against Venezuela and vessels. The back story and this is complicated, but I'll read the second paragraph. The effort spearheaded by Democratic senators,

1:11.5

Adam Schiff of California and Tim Kane of Virginia,

1:14.3

and with the backing of Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky,

1:17.8

was stopped by a vote of 48 to 51.

1:21.5

Professor, a very good day to you.

1:23.3

The U.S. Senate getting involved in directing foreign policy

1:27.2

at the confrontation level of the White House

1:31.4

is reminiscent of my youth, once upon a time, in the 1970s with Richard Nixon in the White House and then Gerald Ford in the White House.

1:41.2

The Congress became a voice in foreign policies passing a number of acts

1:47.3

that limited or were said to limit the authority of the President of the United States

1:51.8

with regard the clear and present danger to the United States.

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