"Get in loser, we're doing regime change"

That's charitable. I read it as Congress is dumb and Maduro sucks, so getting in the president's way must be unconstitutional.

Also, Iraq? Hmm, never heard of it.

"We have already seen over the last decade how the lines between national security and economic security imperatives have become blurred. In fact, they have now essentially merged."6

"But the cooperative world order we all expected or at least hoped for 25 years ago is being replaced by a confrontational global economy."5/

"Economics has become the central instrument of power in today's world. Those who control the economic levers are the ones who can exert control over others. The global supply chains. The new disruptive technologies. The capital flows and the key inputs for our industries and societies."4/

"Every day, we see how the tools of traditional statecraft are being used to weaponize interdependencies and leverage alliances. To create chokeholds on countries and industries. To exert control and impose coercion on others."

"This is new geoeconomics..."3/

"A world of imperial ambitions and hostile actors. A world of transactionalism and zero-sum games. A world in which the global economy as we know it is giving way to a permanent state of flux and disorder."2/

www.justsecurity.org/75306/legall...

Embargo on Megara, grain through the Bosphorus, silver mines of Amphipolis...

Finding the balance between describing what's new and unique about a situation and what just part of the natural ebb and flow well-explained by others before is one of most difficult scholarly tasks. The best I can do is aspire to it.