So, like this: a new foreign policy doctrine Donald Trump is that he can order when he feels like it kidnapping every dictator and bombing the country he leads, if he is not obedient. This is the message of the kidnapping of the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Silvia Flores. That is the essence, everything else is excuses.
Trump condemned and sentenced Maduro, showed that the United States with him at the head does not care about the Charter of the United Nations and international law, humiliated the Congress that did not inform about the military attack on the country in the neighborhood, humiliated its international allies.
Trump spoke about "those exes" in the White House who did not have the guts to heroically defend America like he did, about this military action as a historical achievement that will be studied at military academies.
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A painful reminder
The signatory of these lines abhors all dictators and dictators, either left or right, such as Maduro, Putin, Erdogan, such as Saddam Hussein, Muammar el-Gaddafi, Bashar el-Assad... What is Vučić like.
But this brutal and open trampling of the international legal order and civilizational norms established with great difficulty, a demonstration of force and the right of the stronger, once again painfully reminds us of the historical sequences that preceded the apocalyptic developments.
When Donald Trump ordered the kidnapping of Maduro, why wouldn't Vladimir Putin now send his elite units to capture Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife, when his initial invasion of Kiev had already failed? Who is the one who decides on the justification of such interventions? America first! Russian Donbas! Chinese Taiwan!
When the president of the "leader of the free world" kidnaps the president of another country, the entire so-called West loses its grip on the sanctity of democracy and its achievements.
To prepare Gustavo Petro
Therefore, Maduro has poured in, and the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, should prepare himself. Trump threatened him, as well as the president of Venezuela, to "save his ass" ("to watch his ass") because he turned his country into a "cocaine business", revoked his American visa and put him on the list of people under American sanctions.
Trump is doing exactly what he railed against his predecessors and swore he wouldn't do: he's playing the world's policeman. Even worse, a bounty hunter, while issuing warrants himself.
Donald John Trump, the 47th president of the USA, put on his belt, cocked his revolvers and attached a silver star. The new sheriff, a powerful gunslinger, has triumphantly ridden into the global village.
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