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    Trump battles series of foreign policy setbacks after some risky bets

    by Eli Stokols, Noah Bierman, David S. Cloud and Don Lee, Los Angeles Times May 07, 2019 6 minutes

    WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's unconventional foreign policy appeared in disarray amid a series of setbacks around the globe and mounting signs that the president and his advisers were on the verge of losing several risky policy bets.

    The evidence came in one hot spot after another, from North Korea to Venezuela, with pushback on multiple strategic fronts that left the White House scrambling.

    Although Trump has conducted two splashy summits with North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un, on Friday Kim personally oversaw what appeared to be a short-range missile launch. Analysts called the missile launch, its first since 2017, a sign of Kim's impatience now that the talks have stalled.

    In Venezuela, a U.S.-backed military uprising aimed at overthrowing the leftist president, Nicolas Maduro, fizzled out in hours last Tuesday when few soldiers joined the attempted putsch. White House aides offered an array of excuses, blaming Russians and duplicitous military officers.

    On Sunday,

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