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"There's no doubt that the message is larger than Caracas," Thomas Shannon, who served as under secretary of state for political affairs during the first Trump administration, tells Newsweek, "that the primary recipients of the message should be Colombia and Mexico, and not that he's coming after their elected leaders, but he's basically saying, Listen, militarily, we can do anything we want to, whenever we want to, and you can't stop us.'"