Beginning of the American Decline? ::::: 'Operation Uphold Democracy' was launched in 1994 in Haiti --- that country is now a failed state dominated by armed gangs ::::

Donald Trump will be now like a maneater -- most dangerous having tasted human blood. 

He will not remain content with Venezuela alone. He could be eyeing similar adventurism in Columbia, Mexico and also Cuba.

"Something's going to have to be done with Mexico," he told Fox News and not without good reasons. 

** The Afghanistan debacle had done extreme damage to drive home the point in 2021 (under Trump's predecessor Joe Biden) that it is/was high time for the international community to understand that enough is enough. The US is perhaps no longer the real global leader. 

Of course, Americans have a long record of armed intervention in Latin America and beyond. Iraq and Afghanistan essentially backfired but there is no real change in Washington's policy approach nor key lessons learnt.

'Operation Uphold Democracy' was a multinational military intervention in Haiti designed to remove the military regime led and installed by Raoul Cédras after the 1991 coup.

Elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted. 

The operation was effectively authorized by the 31 July 1994 United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 940, which approved the use of force to restore the Aristide government.

President Bill Clinton sent in 25,000 troops and two aircraft carriers to enforce regime change. Then, the Haitian regime crumbled without a shot being fired. Far from ushering in a better future, the 30 years since then have been a period of almost unbroken misery for the Haitian people.  

This was a six months, one week and five day operation between September 19, 1994 to March 31, 1995

"Haiti is now a failed state dominated by armed gangs," says BBC's international editor, Jeremy Bowen. 

America's record of achieving regime change by force has been disastrous. Neither Iraq nor Afghanistan were in America's backyard.

** Iraq descended into a bloody catastrophe after the US invasion in 2003. 

*** In Afghanistan two decades and billions of dollars' worth of attempted nation-building were swept away in days after the US pulled out in 2021. 

The United States got the taste of an increasing blow-back for pursuing bad policies over decades. 

(Refer Organiser piece in 2021 by blogger -

 https://organiser.org/2021/09/18/19846/world/taliban-government-the-most-wanted-cabinet-and-new-cold-war/ )

Note:  The Taliban also appointed several hardliners in its new government (in 2021) who oversaw the 20-year fight against the US-led military coalition. 

ends