We Americans are a parochial people — we’re homebodies.

War with Iran?

We’d rather watch the Super Bowl.

Overthrow a South American dictator?

Are you kidding?

Let’s talk about the Epstein files — sex, a supposed suicide and CIA all wrapped in one lurid package.

It’s one of our better traits.

Our country is often accused of rank imperialism, but in truth we’d rather putter around our own backyards.

Now and then, though, we need to peek over the garden wall and see how the rest of the world is doing.

If we do so today, we’ll find our sitting president, Donald Trump, feverishly rearranging the scenery and props on the geopolitical stage.

If the play he inherited from his predecessor was “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire,” Trump’s new production is an updated remake of “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.”

Everything is in an uproar, everything looks different — mostly, I must say, to the president’s advantage.

The Western Hemisphere can stand as Exhibit A of Trump’s global hyperactivity.

In Venezuela, a US carrier fleet steamed offshore for months, as a warning to the anti-American dictator of that country, Nicolás Maduro.

To most wise observers, myself included, the move looked like a simple application of pressure. It felt like a bluff, to see if Maduro would fold.

The reality is that Trump blusters a lot.

The reality also is, sometimes he means it.

In one of the most remarkable episodes in recent history, US special forces swooped down on Maduro’s fortress, slaughtered his Cuban bodyguards and removed the dictator and his wife from their bedroom to New York City, where both will face trial on drug-running charges.

Trump then told Maduro’s vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, that she could stay in charge if she did exactly what he told her.

A nervous Rodríguez immediately agreed.

Unlike the Iraq operation, the US surgically transformed a hostile regime into a dependent one, without getting stuck with having to fix a broken country.

Venezuelan oil is now being sold by American companies — a fact almost as astonishing as the night raid itself.

Normally, Latin American governments of all political stripes condemn US military interventions in the region.

It’s a conditioned reflex.

Not this time.

An unprecedented trend has seen the rise of pro-US and more specifically pro-Trump leaders in Latin America, starting with Javier Milei in Argentina and Nayib Bukele in El Salvador but including the recently elected presidents of........

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