If you are our bastard, your crimes are "internal affairs." If you defy us, your existence is a crime.
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If another country did what you are applauding, you would call it terrorism.
You list every accusation ever thrown at Maduro and then jump straight to the conclusion that the United States has the right to cross an ocean, violate another country’s sovereignty, kill people, and grab a head of state because it feels like it.
You do not have to like Maduro to see the problem here.
You say he "literally ran a cartel."
Who armed and funded the biggest narco-state networks in Latin America for decades?
Who turned Colombia into a cocaine highway while calling it a close ally?
Who ran Iran–Contra and pumped drugs into U.S. cities while preaching "law and order"?
You say he "caused hyperinflation."
Who unleashed the most crushing sanctions regime in the hemisphere, blocked access to credit and spare parts, froze state assets, and threatened anyone who traded with Venezuela?
If you strangle an economy and then point at the collapse as proof that its government is evil, you are not doing analysis.
You are describing a successful siege.
You say he "cheated in elections."
Fine. Let us imagine every accusation is true.
Since when does that give Washington the right to appoint itself prosecutor, judge, and executioner over a country it has tried to overthrow openly since 2002?
If cheating elections and torturing prisoners made a leader fair game for abduction by foreign powers, half the U.S.-backed regimes on earth would be on a rendition list tonight.
But they sell oil, buy weapons, and host bases, so they are "partners," not targets.
That is the real doctrine you are defending:
If you are our bastard, your crimes are "internal affairs."
If you defy us, your existence is a crime.
Elon calls Maduro’s capture "a win for the world."
It is not a win for the world when the most heavily armed state on the planet demonstrates that it can send ships, drones, and special forces to snatch a foreign head of state whenever it decides he is "illegitimate."
That is not justice.
That is a live demonstration of how little your sovereignty is worth if you ever put your resources, your alliances, or your politics outside U.S. control.
"Trump sent a message to all the other dictators that the U.S. can exercise our will anywhere, any time."
You think that is strength.
From where we stand, it is a confession.
It is the empire telling the South:
Your votes do not matter.
Your constitutions do not matter.
Your borders do not matter.
Your people’s suffering under sanctions and blockades does not matter.
The only thing that matters is whether you obey.
So no, this is not a "win for the world."
It is a win for the idea that the world is a map of hunting grounds, and the U.S. gets to decide who is predator and who is prey.
Call Maduro whatever you like.
If you cheer the precedent that a foreign power can topple, abduct, or assassinate any leader it brands a "thug," you are not fighting tyranny.
You are volunteering the rest of us to live under it.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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