{"id":947,"date":"2026-01-15T17:17:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=947"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:17:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:17:33","slug":"boots-on-foreign-soil-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=947","title":{"rendered":"Boots On Foreign Soil Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1755813\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the days that followed, the triumphant headlines faded faster than the unease. The capture of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro was sold as proof of American precision, yet Trump\u2019s own description of a \u201cvery dangerous attack\u201d betrayed how thin the margin truly was. A few wrong seconds, a missed signal, and the story could have been flag-draped coffins, burning wreckage, and a president explaining why it was \u201cworth it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1755813\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>His insistence that the mission must not be \u201cin vain,\u201d and his talk of Venezuela being \u201crun properly,\u201d hinted at a larger ambition: not just removing a man, but reshaping a nation. With forces \u201cready to go again,\u201d the United States stands in a too-familiar posture\u2014victorious, confident, and one decision away from something irreversible. History rarely announces the start of a new war. It begins like this: a success, a warning, and a choice no one can unmake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the days that followed, the triumphant headlines faded faster than the unease. The capture of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro was sold as proof of American precision, yet Trump\u2019s own description of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}