A year ago, when President Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term, the chattering class was rife with predictions of his foreign policy priorities. The usual suspects, China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, were high on the list. Few, however, predicted the outsize role that Venezuela would play. And fewer still expected that the White House would seize the Venezuelan dictator, Nicolás Maduro, in a daring raid. If unwittingly, Maduro provided the Trump administration with the opportunity to usher in a new era of American power, reestablishing and reinventing an old doctrine at a crucial moment on the international stage. At first glance, Venezuela is an unlikely setting. After all, Venezuela doesn’t have nuclear weapons. Nor was it actively trying to obtain them. Caracas is not Beijing. It is not an industrial titan seeking to supplant the United States as the world’s sole superpower. Nor is it Moscow. Venezuela hasn’t sent columns of tanks across borders to conquer its neighbors. CIA Director John Ratcliffe, President Trump, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. (Molly Riley/The White House/AP) Maduro, a party flunky, is a far cry from Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, or Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. By any metric, he isn’t a man of destiny or God’s agent on Earth. But he is a despot all the same, and his regime was a problem for the U.S. and its national interests in real and substantial ways....