by GABRIEL AGUIRRE
CARACAS, (CAJ News) – THE United States President Donald Trump has now bombed Venezuela, kidnapped its president, and claimed that he would run the country.
This is utter destruction of any rule of law.
World BEYOND War has chapters all over the world, including in Venezuela.
“The United Nations Charter makes it a crime to threaten war and a crime to wage war except in defense or by UN authorization, neither of which is the case here, and neither of which has even been alleged here.”
The alleged shortcomings of a government provide no legal basis for a foreign government to attempt to overthrow it.
The illegal drug trade, even where real, provides no legal basis for waging war or committing murder.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s claims about the illegal drug trade regarding both Venezuela and over 100 people thus far killed in boats with U.S. missiles from drones are without evidence and widely considered not even plausible.
Seizing a nation’s oil provides no legal basis for waging war or committing murder.
Sanctions illegally imposed on Venezuela by the United States, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, have now been exacerbated by acts of war including the declaration of a no-fly zone and of a naval blockade.
Even United States Army Judge Advocates General have denounced Trump’s actions as “patently illegal”.
Sixty-three percent of people in the United States, a purportedly representative democracy, in a recent poll oppose military action in Venezuela.
Wars normalize killing, degrade our culture, proliferate weaponry, fuel arms races, devastate the natural environment, cost a financial fortune desperately needed for human and environmental crises, shred the rule of law, spread bigotry and xenophobia, and increase terrorism.
We must reject Trump’s recent announcement of support for an imperialistic corollary of the Monroe Doctrine.
– CAJ News