Anonymous OP 5w

Liberating a country to build a relationship where we can BUY oil from them in the future sounds like a pretty good deal if you ask me

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Anonymous #1 5w

Definitely an insightful timeline but what are you saying? Maduro was widely regarded as being in power unlawfully by almost every country in the world, both democratic and republican administrations put a price on his head, and he got captured for it (as per your timeline)

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Anonymous #2 5w

Understandable. International law is interesting. On the surface it looks like trump violated UN charter article 2(4) but in practice it gets a little messy. The US is a tricky one to enforce because we’re so powerful, but also we do have precedent for something like this (when we captured and prosecuted Noriega in a similar way) and there’s ambiguity to the legitimacy of maduro as head of state/history of continued narcoterrorism armed attacks/ and the fact this could potentially be construed

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Anonymous OP 5w

As both sanctioned by the people of Venezuela and as an act of self defense. Basically it looks illegal but there isn’t a ton the UN can do about it unless it’s clearly illegal. Until they can prove that it is (unlikely) then the US has the ability to legally prosecute Maduro domestically as he has been officially indicted for Narcoterrorism, other drug charges, money laundering, and weapons related conspiracy

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Anonymous OP 5w

I just went down the rabbit hole. I hope this brings some clarity

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