US President Donald Trump participates in a call with US Army service members from Palm Beach, Florida, on November 27, 2025. Anna Rose Layden/Reuters

President Donald Trump’s Venezuela regime change adventure is in danger of degenerating into a strategic, political and legal morass.

Trump gathered top national security officials and aides at an Oval Office meeting Monday evening seeking to define next steps in a showdown now slipping out of his control, both inside the impoverished oil-rich nation and in Washington.

Before the talks, President Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan dictator, defiantly danced before a huge crowd of supporters in Caracas in a Trump-style open air rally, shattering previous rumors he’d bowed to US calls to leave the country. “We do not want peace of slaves,

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