At first glance, President Donald Trumps decision to recognize an upstart opposition leader as president of Venezuela looks like an abrupt and risky break from diplomatic norms vintage Trump, in other words.
But it may be the most traditional foreign policy move this president has ever made.
Not merely because Trump is seeking regime change in a Latin American country; the United States has done that for more than a century.
And not because the intervention was aimed at a leftist government allied with Cuba, long a target of hawkish Republicans.