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In the early hours of Jan. 3, the United States staged a whirlwind military intervention in Venezuela.
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When the dust had settled, President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Adela Flores, were in U.S. custody, charged with narcoterrorism and possession of a machine gun.
Canadian military analysts were quick to take to the airwaves to praise the precision and efficiency of the U.S. special military operation.
Initially, no one wanted to address the legality of the Trump administration abducting a sitting president from a foreign sovereign state through the use of deadly military force. While seven U.S. service members sustained slight wounds, an estimated 80 Venezuelan and Cuban security force members were killed in the one-sided clashes.
Donald Trump’s original premise for intervention in Venezuela was to stop the flow of deadly fentanyl into the U.S. However, when fact checkers pointed out that no fentanyl is produced in Venezuela and the majority of that county’s drug exports are trafficked to Europe, Trump simply pivoted to say it was all about the........