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Cato Weekly Podcast • November 13, 2025 

# Don’t Do It, Mr. President: The Prospect of a US War in Venezuela 

The Cato Institute’s Justin Logan and Brandan P. Buck unpack the Trump administration’s shifting justifications for military action in Venezuela, from fentanyl and cocaine interdiction to Monroe Doctrine revivalism. They explore the legal and strategic risks of invoking war powers under dubious pretenses, warning that the push for regime change could repeat the mistakes of Libya and Iraq while doing little to solve the hemisphere’s drug or governance problems.

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### [Don’t Do It, Mr. President](/commentary/dont-do-it-mr-president) 

By [Justin Logan](https://www.cato.org/people/justin-logan) and [Brandan P. Buck](https://www.cato.org/people/brandan-p-buck) 

U.S.-led regime change in Venezuela would worsen the problems President Trump promised to fix.

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### [When ‘Peace Through Strength’ Means ‘War Is Peace’](/commentary/when-peace-through-strength-means-war-peace) 

By [Brandan P. Buck](https://www.cato.org/people/brandan-p-buck) and Beckett Elkins 

The popular phrase enables professed anti-war conservatives to conserve liberal internationalism.

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### [The U.S. Military Can’t Solve the Fentanyl Crisis](/commentary/us-military-cant-solve-fentanyl-crisis) 

By [Justin Logan](https://www.cato.org/people/justin-logan) and [Daniel Raisbeck](https://www.cato.org/people/daniel-raisbeck) 

A trendy idea among GOP candidates would fail, just as it did in Colombia.

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##### [Justin Logan](/people/justin-logan)

Director of Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute

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