Absent a “real” strategy in his aggressive foreign policy, US President Donald Trump is nonetheless revealing an emergent style or pattern. From Iran, which he is currently pounding, to Venezuela and perhaps Cuba and other countries, he’s not interested in building democracies, but in erecting puppet states.

“What we did in Venezuela, I think, is the perfect, the perfect scenario,” Trump told the New York Times in a conversation about his ongoing campaign against Iran. “Everybody’s kept their job except for two people.”

© Bloomberg