US: When Cross-Border Raids Are 'Democracy' (Spoiler: It Depends)
The New Arab reports Trump pushing back against Democrats' criticism over a Maduoro raid. The former President rightly points out that Democrats, including Joe Biden, previously called for Maduro's arrest. The conveniently forgotten context here is the long, bipartisan history of U.S. interventionism in Latin America, from the coups in Chile and Guatemala to the Contra funding in Nicaragua. This
isn't about 'Maduro's raid' for Democrats; it's about who gets to authorize the destabilization, and whether it scores political points. We saw this same selective morality with the Iraq War—Democrats who voted for it suddenly became 'anti-war' when Bush was unpopular. So, when Democrats furrow their brows over Trump's extra-legal escapades, it's not a sudden embrace of international norms; it's
just 'my imperial adventures good, your imperial adventures bad.' The real conversation isn't about the raid itself, but about the deeply ingrained hypocrisy that allows both parties to justify foreign intervention when it suits their agenda.