I’m going LIVE with Brett Bruen, a former U.S. diplomat who served in Venezuela, at 1pm ET Monday to talk about what Washington consistently gets wrong about regime change, opposition movements, and power abroad.

Brett told me something shocking:

“If my time in Venezuela taught me one thing it’s that there is no one center of power in either the regime or opposition. The notion that we will run this unwieldy country is pretty naive…”

We’ll unpack:

• Why the idea of a single “strongman” or unified opposition is often a myth

• How U.S. foreign policy oversimplifies complex power structures

• What Venezuela reveals about America’s limits abroad

• And what policymakers still refuse to learn

📍 Monday | 1 PM ET | Substack Live

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