"United States President Donald Trump has kicked off the new year with a typically deranged bang by conducting massive air strikes on Venezuela and reportedly capturing the country's president, Nicolas Maduro, who has apparently been spirited off to an undisclosed location. The attack does not come entirely as a surprise, given Trump's track record of doing whatever the hell he wants with no regard for the law or for his own promise to, you know, stop waging war abroad."
"Indeed, Trump has been chattering for months about the possibility of enhanced US military action against Venezuela, as the US has gone about bombing boats willy-nilly off the country's coast, supposedly in the name of combatting drug trafficking. This has entailed numerous extrajudicial killings and rampant accusations of war crimes. But, hey, it's all in a day's work for an administration that couldn't care less about legal justification for its behaviour, much less human rights and other such silly concepts."
The United States launched massive air strikes on Venezuela and reportedly captured President Nicolas Maduro, who was reportedly taken to an undisclosed location. The strikes followed months of US rhetoric about increased military action and incidents of bombing boats off Venezuela’s coast allegedly to combat drug trafficking. The operations have included extrajudicial killings, hijacking oil tankers, and allegations that Venezuela stole US assets. Decades of US sanctions have severely damaged the Venezuelan economy, with former UN rapporteur Alfred de Zayas estimating 100,000 deaths by 2020 due to coercive economic measures. US officials claim Maduro was arrested to face criminal charges in the United States.
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