The World Is Not America's Colony - a brilliant piece
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The World Is Not America's Colony - a brilliant piece by
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‘'We said Gaza was the canary in the coal mine. For over two years, Israel committed genocide on livestream while the International Court of Justice issued provisional measures that were ignored, while the UN passed resolutions the United States vetoed, while the Genocide Convention was violated in high definition on our phones. The world responded with empty condemnations, statements calling for de-escalation that placed equal responsibility on the occupied and the occupier, leaders wringing their hands about complexity while doing nothing. Very concerned. Deeply troubled. Calling for restraint on both sides, as if the side being bombed and the side doing the bombing bear equal responsibility for the bombing. America was watching. And America learned, again, that it could do whatever it wants, whenever it wants, and no international institution would stop it. Venezuela is the confirmation.'
'Palestine exposed the lie of international law, that’s clear, but we now see that Venezuela exposes the lie that self-determination means anything when the world’s number one superpower wants what you have. Together they reveal that the entire post-World War II international order has been gutted so completely that Trump does not even bother with pretense. He just says out loud that he is stealing Venezuela’s oil, that American corporations will rebuild what American bombs destroyed, that the United States will run another sovereign nation because he decided to.'
'If Maduro is a dictator warranting removal, why did Trump welcome El Salvador’s self-described dictator Nayib Bukele to the White House? Why fund Bukele’s concentration camp CECOT while he disappears people without trial? Why does Netanyahu, a genocider with an active ICC warrant, receive billions in weapons while killing Americans in Gaza? Maduro has not killed an American. But he is suddenly subject to US jurisdiction anywhere on earth, arrestable through invasion. Meanwhile, Netanyahu kills American citizens and gets rewarded. The message is unmistakable: international law applies only to leaders America dislikes, immunity is reserved for those aligned with American power. This is a protection racket with fighter jets.'
posted by Satish Sharma at
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