US Unease Over Seizing Maduro, Not Over Seizing Nations
The irony is so thick, you could cut it with one of those 'surgical strike' drones. ABC News, in its infinite wisdom, finds 'unease' over the Trump administration considering snatching a foreign leader (Source: ABC News). This 'unease' conspicuously evaporates when the US orchestrates coups, imposes crippling sanctions that starve populations, or invades sovereign nations based on flimsy pretexts.
Remember when the Bush administration invaded Iraq in 2003, claiming WMDs that never materialized? That didn't raise much 'unease' about international law, did it? Only when it conveniently serves the narrative does the 'legal framework' suddenly come into focus. This isn't about upholding international law; it's about selectively applying it to maintain geopolitical leverage. The 'unease' only
appears when the US's actions might be perceived as a 'rogue state' move, rather than the 'global policeman' routine we've been fed for decades. One might wonder where this critical introspection was when the US was actively destabilizing governments from Chile in 1973 to Libya in 2011.