Perhaps no one outside of Venezuela should care more about the US invasion and capture of President Nicolás Maduro than the Islamic Republic of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
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So far the response across the continent to both the Greenland threats and the US’ actions in Venezuela, have been feeble and confused.
How various factions respond to the Trump administration’s threat to be the de facto ruler of the country could quickly inflame domestic tensions and lead to conflict.
Talk of regime change brings up uncomfortable memories of the chaos after the overthrow of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein.
Successful American action in Venezuela and threats against Greenland suggest the rules-based international order that emerged following the Second World War is now on life support.
The US attack on Venezuela highlights a shifting American foreign policy that dismisses a rules-based global order and focuses on economic interests and military might.
The contrasting reactions of Venezuelans to Maduro’s capture reveal a moment shaped as much by uncertainty and suspicion as by relief and hope.
Should we push for a better UN that doesn’t reward the powerful by making them unaccountable? Absolutely. Should we scrap it altogether? No.
Trump’s Venezuela intervention has divided his ‘America first’ support base.
It’s a blatant breach of international law which which will encourage Russia and China to follow suit.
Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro long resisted US attempts to influence Venezuelan politics and exert control over its oil reserves.
The Trump administration has used US domestic laws to justify capturing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. It’s a clear case of US exceptionalism.
If Washington governs by force in Venezuela, it will repeat the failures of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya: Power can topple regimes, but it cannot create political authority or legitimacy.
Months of preparation and intelligence gathering went into the mission to seize Venezuela’s president in Caracas.
The US intervention in Venezuela does not represent a break from past practice.
Many experts warn the already eroded UN Charter is now nearing collapse.
It is hard to see how this can be anything other than a ‘use of force’ under article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter.
President Donald Trump has said the US will ‘run’ Venezuela until a ‘safe, proper and judicious transition’ can take place. But that still leaves many options.
The operation in Venezuela has echoes of Panama in 1989. But in ordering President Maduro’s capture, Trump has broken with long-standing US policy in Latin America.
Congress has a legal, constitutional and even moral responsibility to assert itself as a branch when it comes to military actions by the US, says an expert on war powers.
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