So, is this act of war authorised, justified or within POTUS’ Constitutional power?
Other countries will inevitably see this as a regime change, which is always unpredictable & might well precipitate other happenings or greater instability. Moreover, with such acts, a country loses any moral point of standing - can’t condemn other countries who do the same - Russia anyone?
Oil? Well……
The full indictment:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1422326/dl
And:
As they seem to have gone down the judicial route, only struck military targets & only targeted the president of the country They can probably argue on grounds of necessity.
It won’t even be regime change - the current government of Venezuela is still intact & the vice president just steps up.
This will once again get into semantics. Trumps puppeteers toeing the line of what they can and can’t get away with. And each time, pushing that line a little further over.
This is by almost all accounts an act of war, however Pam Bondi wants to frame it.
Which is noteworthy, given the Americans were allegedly carrying out decapitation strikes. If that’s true, whilst they secured their HVT they ultimately failed in their objectives.
God listening to him talk is just painful. Jumping between a script he’s clearly never read before, then giving his own nonsense inputs in-between the script.
Very glad to hear no America service personnel have been killed during this raid.
Trump has just said explicitly that the US is going to run the country.
This isn’t just an arrest. This is a take-over. This is all about taking the oil. That’s it.
This is the stuff for which we criticise Putin.
To be fair this has been US geopolitics 101 for a long time, Vietnam was a “Police Action”.
The big one this is identical to is Panama, Bush didn’t consult Congress, he cited self defence and went in, Trump will do the same.
This is why Europe and other aligned states need to hold on to and defend international norms & laws.
Only “temporary” (define the time frame) regime change then….
The temporary messaging is the exact same we hear from juntas that lead Coup d’Etats that become permanent.
But I bet Guyana is breathing a sigh of relief this evening.
Took the words right out of my mouth. Strikes me as more akin to Panama or Grenada than Georgia or Ukraine.
Honestly, I don’t really mind how he justifies it. I would actually support helping the Iranian people remove their government because no one should have to live under a religious dictatorship.
I just can’t believe Trump would disrespect the FIFA peace prize like this.
What I don’t understand is why he diced to indict him in NY, a broadly democratic state, rather than somewhere he has more influence. Complete stab in the dark, but is it something to do with Mamdani’s inauguration this morning?
New way of knowing my thoughts on whatever trump does… just listen to this guy. Pretty much agree with everything he posts…
