Military action against a sovereign state is illegal under the UN charter. There are two exceptions: self-defense, and UN Security Council approval.
Heads of state have personal immunity while in office from prosecution in foreign courts.
This attack is a serious breakdown of international norms.
In the words of Buford T justice (smokey & the bandit), "What we have here, is a complete lack of respect for the law"
Yes.
February 29, 2004: the US kidnapped Aristide and his family and flew them to the Central African Republic.
Canada's #jtf2 special forces held the airport.
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@evan To play devil's advocate here, Maduro doesn't have a central bank run by the Rothschild family. That's why the Vatican called for it, as they're above the UN, so they think.
They aren't above common law, though....
@evan it's the inevitable breakdown and failure of the UN to accomplish any of its stated purposes. an organisation of powerful people created to solve the problems their power causes can only stall, rather than prevent, the kind of actions that made it necessary, or consume itself.
as for "norms", this has been the norm since 1492.
@evan Who cares about the UN Charter? Any strong independent power can ignore this without serious consequences.
@evan But who can argue with them? Putin has taken himself out of the game. Europe? Trump has total dominance
@evan americans are way too lazy and comfortable to do anything but netflix and chill as democracy is so gratuitously removed from them
@brotherpsyche international law doesn't require anything from Americans.
@evan oh no someone call the global police to enforce this "international law" / *looks around ?
@evan this tracks with how the US has done things for a very long time, especially in the western hemisphere. Things like international law are cosplay. This is just regime change for oil, colonialism and plunder
@kworker No, it doesn't. The US used invaded and occupied Latin American countries in the first half of the 1900s, but after the formation of the United Nations it was more involved in funding and supporting civil wars. Exceptions like the invasion of Panama have been criticized in the world community, and the mining of Nicaragua's harbours was a crime per the International Court of Justice. That kind of normalization is extremely dangerous.
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