CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — At least seven explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard around 2 a.m. local time Saturday in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas. The government accused the United States of attacking civilian and military installations in multiple states.
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Venezuela’s government, in the statement, called on its supporters to take to the streets.
“People to the streets!” the statement said. “The Bolivarian Government calls on all social and political forces in the country to activate mobilization plans and repudiate this imperialist attack.”
The statement added that President Nicolás Maduro had “ordered all national defense plans to be implemented” and declared “a state of external disturbance.” That state of emergency gives him the power to suspend people’s rights and expand the role of the armed forces.
With the ‘logic’ being:
We indicted him as a narco terrorist, therefore:
Domestically, we do not need to get a declaration of war from Congress before embarking on what very clearly does actually require one, and,
Internationally, it is entirely valid to kidnap the President of another country, because we have indicted him as a narco terrorist in our own court system, and also because they stole our oil, somehow, or something.
… Hope everyone is ready to get reacquainted with the idea that world of nation-states is a world of violent chaos that only pretends otherwise.
Leader of Taiwan?
Indicted by China, extraordinarily rendered to Chinese courts by force for trial, following mass naval blockade and special forces operation.
Leader of Poland, Ukraine?
Indicted by Russia, extraordinarily rendered to Russian courts by force for trial, via special military operation 2 or 3 or 4.
… the precedent that was set by this action could quite literally end the world as we know it.