For a long time — including during Trump's first term — this smash-and-grab idea to corner the global energy supply was treated as something of a joke by outside analysts and political opponents. In this second administration, a version of it has become a building block of American power projection, both at home and abroad. That policy is one of the reasons why the US captured Venezuela's president . It's the same reason why this White House now feels like it can choke Cuba so hard that Havana