But it's not murder. It's an arrest of someone who wouldn't leave office after losing an election. Admittedly the people celebrating are Venezuelans abroad rather than in Venezuela. Hope it goes ok there too.
It’s also a crime against the US constitution and the international legal order. By condoning “might is right” Trump has given an excuse to every tinpot dictator, from Putin to Kim, to invade and kill whoever they want
And the voters who elected Trump because he promised to stop with "nation building".
But with Venezuela's +300bn oil barrels at Trump's disposal now, I bet the gas prices will plummeted. I wonder how the MAGA fanbase will react (probably will be happy to let just this one "nation building" project to slip through their ethics).
If you remember the aftermath of the Iraq2 invasion (which a lot of people claimed was about oil) gas prices did not plummet at all but the reverse. Gas doubled at the pump, maybe slightly more.
Most Venezuelans will make a very loud point to disagree with you.
Source?
8 Million refugees?
This lot of Venezuelans don't seem too worried https://www.nbcnews.com/video/venezuelan-community-in-miami-...
Didn't most Latin Americans living in Florida move there to escape their generally left-leaning countries? Makes sense they would celebrate.
If someone murdered Obama while in office you could have filmed a video just like this in America, crazy that you’d post this
But it's not murder. It's an arrest of someone who wouldn't leave office after losing an election. Admittedly the people celebrating are Venezuelans abroad rather than in Venezuela. Hope it goes ok there too.
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Venezuelans are cheering.
And what are they going to to do against the militias and military that are loyal to Maduros political party?
I'll tell you. Nothing. They are going to do nothing. Because they can't.
We’ll see about that. In the meantime I get to see Maduro handcuffed and blindfolded on a US warship heading to NY.
Life is good.
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It’s also a crime against the US constitution and the international legal order. By condoning “might is right” Trump has given an excuse to every tinpot dictator, from Putin to Kim, to invade and kill whoever they want
And the voters who elected Trump because he promised to stop with "nation building".
But with Venezuela's +300bn oil barrels at Trump's disposal now, I bet the gas prices will plummeted. I wonder how the MAGA fanbase will react (probably will be happy to let just this one "nation building" project to slip through their ethics).
I doubt they'll like it, but like most Americans, I think they mostly gloss over foreign policy.
Most Americans can't find Venezuela on a map. (Presumably most humans can't)
They'll overlook this (and similar moves) and pay attention to domestic policy, unless we're dragged into an extended war.
If you remember the aftermath of the Iraq2 invasion (which a lot of people claimed was about oil) gas prices did not plummet at all but the reverse. Gas doubled at the pump, maybe slightly more.
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Gas prices would have plummeted in any case, we have an over supply of LNG that is scheduled to get exponentially worse in the next 5 years
The US casually eliminating a nasty despot is likely to have a chilling effect on the other nasty despots.
Putin and Kim will -not- be emboldened by this act - quite the opposite.
If only this were about eliminating a nasty despot…
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It's really not a crime against the US constitution. And "International Law" isn't really law, because there is no enforcer.
International politics is anarchy. Rules are enforced by the hegemon.
Article I of the Constitution, Section 8: only Congress has the power to declare war.
International law exists - it’s the very purpose of the International Court of Justice
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