Comment by xpe
3 days ago
> Vice President J. D. Vance suggested on X that this morning’s incursion is legal because “Maduro has multiple indictments in the United States for narcoterrorism.” But as my colleague Conor Friedersdorf has noted, this logic would mean that the president can order an invasion of “any country where a national has an outstanding arrest warrant.”
- The Atlantic
Worse, it means that any country that the US wants to invade, it can justify it by manufacturing an indictment against the ruler.