When was his criminal record used as justification?
You were incoherent before. Now it's just senseless babbling.
Legal? What's any of this have to do with legality?
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Well as far as international law it opens the door to Tiwan for china. Something I'm sure they will notice, degrades the argument about Ukraine and weakens the rules based upon order the world had operated on to the benefit of the United States btw. So numbers ways it practically and diplomatically can have unwanted repercussions for America.
To be fair, it already didn't. Personally I find the war crime situation with the boat strikes more concerning. Another basically illegal regime change by the US hardly changes anything.
The position of firearms and devices is next level overreach. I mean your charged with possessing items in your own residence, in another country and I can only presume legally owning said devices as I doubt it's illigal for the president to own military hardware tho I have no actual idea to be fair. The arm of the "law" is long indeed. Ridiculously long
US already open this with Noriega, then Saddam now Maduro. I don't think in sense it is a new line to be crossed. However it is opening more precedences line to be follow by other big power. Russia off course try with Zelensky but botched it up.
Well, at least he admitted that he want to take over and control the oil industry of Venezuela and replace Madurodam with a puppet regime.Trump Says U.S. Will 'Run' Venezuela and Take Control of Oil
The comments suggest the Trump Administration is planning a long-term intervention in Venezuela.
It is for oil, the talk on Maduro's ilegal activities, using Venezuella by anti US countries, etc are just another babbling excuses that no one going to buy. Except from those that voted Trump or from those who'se ilegal actions (under international law) need suckling for Trump support.
It never did and it never will. Say what you want with Trump, he is putting his business demand card clearer then any Democrats.
I see it slightly differently. While Noriega and Saddam was a target, their main priority then was not just to remove them from power but also change the entire regime/introduce democracy etc, which includes destroying the entire political structure and military capacity.
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Yes, practically the regime still operational and so far in control of Venezuella. This raise suspicions that some in regime practically sacrifice Maduro to keep the regime in power.
I’d say that it all depends on where things go from here. It’s not yet clear at all what follows next. The regime (that many have already pronounced changed or, at the very least, changing) is basically intact and in charge. It also looks like the very regime sold Maduro to the US (perhaps as an impediment in coming to some sort of a deal with the Americans). As I see it, shit can break loose rather quickly here and stay loose for a long while destabilizing the entire region and the US “security” requiring their involvement and so on. Or just a failed state that is more than a splinter, again, requiring further attention (and no certain outcome in sight, to be frank). I mean we all know how this can work from history (many of us saw some of it unfolding in “real life” rather than the text books and essays).I see it slightly differently. While Noriega and Saddam was a target, their main priority then was not just to remove them from power but also change the entire regime/introduce democracy etc, which includes destroying the entire political structure and military capacity.
What is curious this time the goal was Maduro himself and his wife, no one else. That was the first and key priority. To achieve this, they had to suppress air defense, destroy military elements that can impede that goal. But from what I can tell, it wasn't total destruction and most importantly, they left the political structure intact. The vice president, defense minister etc, everyone was not taken out.
It is being framed entirely as a law enforcement operation. Leaving the existing political structure intact and Trump apparently not interested in helping Machado to get power means... he isn't interested in who runs the country as long as they don't create trouble (Rubio talked with Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, Machado says Edmundo González Urrutia, who technically won the last election) and allow US oil interest to come in.
Nobel Winner Machado Left Out of Trump’s Venezuela Plan for Now
President Donald Trump dismissed the idea of working with Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado on a political transition for Venezuela, a setback for the opposition leader who won international acclaim in her fight for democracy in the country.Machado celebrates Maduro ouster, but is scorned by Trump
Maria Corina Machado backed the opposition's 2024 presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia to be president. But Donald Trump said the Nobel laureate doesn't have 'support or respect' in her country.
Oh man you're right! China definitely didn't plan to invade Taiwan but now that this thing happened it's basically obligated to!
