Maduro is just as bad as Trump or Putin. Still it sets a very bad precedent when the US starts acting like Russia. Who will be next?
What country did Maduro invade to be as bad as Putin or Trump?
Invading a country isn’t the only factor to determine how bad a dictator is.
No, the main factor is how strong your state propaganda is against him.
Long live Maduro and the Bolivarian revolution, death to America
This sets an alarming precedent where a sitting us president can kidnap the acting head of another country (elected or not) which is an act of war, without the us being at war or having authorization from congress.
You seem to not understand the term precedent. Neither is that a new thing to do for the US nor is it actually requiring congress authorisation. They gave up that power long ago and now don’t need to autorise anything for up to 90 days.
Also the US has not declared war once since WW2… They actually set the precedent for “military operations” and -again- not recently either.
Has the US not declared war in 2001?
Technically no. Congress passed the AUMF which let the President go after anyone they deemed complicit in 9/11. It did not declare war against specific nations iirc.
From my understanding, when you’re lobbing missles to another country after another country does something horrendous to you. That’s declaration of war.
When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, that was a declaration of war against the US.
So how can all of what you said, not be a declaration? It doesn’t matter if Congress passed this or that. Shit happened, we went to war with Afghanistan, we sent soldiers and fired shit over to the Middle-East. Yet not a declaration?
“I didn’t say it, I declared it!”
But seriously, declaration of war is a legal term specific to each country internal law system. War, as a legal term, hasn’t actually been a thing either in international law since the 50s. It was changed to armed conflict. Which, before you think is stupid and why not call a spade a spade, is actually not that stupid. It created a well defined but much broader concept that (this is the important bit) is independent of a country’s internal law standing or diplomatic declarations thereof. If a situation fulfills the criteria, then it is an armed conflict whether the countries involved like it or declared it. It gives tools to nation states and international organizations to do certain things on the international stage more freely in these situations even when the countries involved don’t want them to.
Looks like the USA managed to buy the local army or something. Well, it went unexpectedly smoothly. Maduro really didn’t look like the elected president. Not sure if USA puppet would be better though…
