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TeaHe is near the United States 90 people died in “extrajudicial executions” this year – State sponsored killings – targeting people aboard alleged smuggling boats on a large scale From Venezuela.
Now donald trump is an american aircraft carrier group steaming However the Caribbean is threatening invasion – based on lies.
America’s justification for killing suspected drug addicts smugglers Are they flooding America with deadly fentanyl?
Apart from the obvious legal issues; The US’s justifications for the killings, such as not firing warning shots at smugglers, not arresting them (as is the norm), and locking victims out of the legal process forever, are nonsense.
According to the US Drug Enforcement Agency and every other relevant source of information on the fentanyl crisis in America, no deadly opiate comes from anywhere or through it. Venezuela,
It reaches America from Mexico. The precursor chemicals to make it come from China.
Mexicans are not being bombed. There is no threat of attack on Beijing.
In the new evil order – which Trump did not invent but is expanding – international law and morality have no meaning. This may be true in Trump’s book, and the invasion is a form of real estate acquisition by other means.
He has notably hosted Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin on US soil and ignored international arrest warrants for both men, who have been convicted of war crimes by the International Criminal Court.
Putin claimed to invade Ukraine to protect its Russian population from Nazi domination of Kiev. That was a lie and now large numbers of Russian-speaking refugees from Ukraine are, or are, dead, killed by Russia.
But Trump has acknowledged that he believes Russia has a “right” to Ukrainian territory because so many Russians have died fighting for it.
Trump has also enthusiastically suggested that Gaza be emptied of Palestinians and turned into a seaside resort. Recently there have been reports that he is supporting plans to turn it into a colony under Tony Blair.
These are terrible ideas and illegal under international law that prohibits the forced displacement of populations.
No matter.
Meanwhile, Trump does not like the regime of Nicola Maduro who has ruled the oil-rich country since 2013.
Maduro is a dictator and stole last July’s election from opposition leader Eduardo Gonzalez who later fled into exile in Spain.
The security personnel who support them have been allowed to get away with drug and gold smuggling. Amid US sanctions and international isolation, this rotten system could spread to the top.
Trump likes powerful people who disregard democratic norms. Viktor Orbán, Putin and China’s Xi Jing Ping are the people he most admires or considers his peers. They are authoritarian capitalists. Maduro’s sin may be his claim to be a “socialist.”
Venezuelan leader says he believes Trump wants to remove him from office. The White House says this is not true.
But there is no immediately obvious reason why Trump would round up small teams of Venezuelans on motor boats and send a fleet to intimidate Caracas — except regime change.
The White House has justified the killings of alleged drug traffickers and Venezuelan fishermen as the US being in a “non-international conflict” with “narco-terrorists” who are killing Americans with drugs.
UN says these killings are “extrajudicial” Execute– and Amnesty International agrees. The UK and Colombia have reportedly suspended intelligence sharing in the Caribbean over the targeting of alleged smuggling boats.
But now US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that the Cartel de los Souls, the group the US alleges is led by Maduro, will be designated a terrorist organization.
Al Qaeda, the so-called Islamic State, Hamas, the Real Irish Republican Army and others have all been designated terrorist groups. So are many Mexican drug cartels.
But in designating the Venezuelan President as the head of a narco-terrorist organization, the head of state is now firmly in the US crosshairs.
There is panic among top US military officials over the killings in the Caribbean. The American commander in this region, Admiral Alvin Holsey, is to step down next month i.e. two years in advance.
It is understood that he raised legal and moral objections to the use of Pentagon assets in the killing of civilians under a doctrine normally reserved for attacks on armed operators who pose an immediate violent threat to the US or its citizens.
in a statement to Independent, A Justice Department spokesperson said: “The strikes were ordered consistent with the laws of armed conflict, and as such are lawful orders.
“Military personnel are legally bound to follow lawful orders and, thus, are not subject to prosecution for not following lawful orders.”
The crews of about 75 US planes, 5,000 soldiers, spies and special forces are now gearing up to move towards Venezuela.
They better hope they get good lawyers.