It’s worth asking again why Sinn Féin sent a delegation to Maduro’s inauguration |
Listening to a backbench Tory in the House of Commons arguing in the case of the armed abduction of Nicolás Maduro that “the end justifies the means”, I was reminded of a saying more fashionable in my childhood: “Two wrongs don’t make a right.” As I wrote on December 17th, the recent US national security strategy ought to be read by anyone concerned about the future of global peace and politics.
The US state department has published a photo of Donald Trump above the slogan “This is Our Hemisphere” with the word “Our” printed in double sized capitals and the colour red. Trump’s unlawful armed action against Maduro has been predictable and predicted for a long time. In these columns, I have warned about it on more than a dozen occasions going back to 2017. After inauguration in 2017, Trump openly spoke about coming armed conflicts involving American forces. While claiming to be an international peacemaker, Trump is happy to use micro-wars in the form of missile, drone and air operations on one condition – that the receiving party lacks any capacity to respond. Moreover, his use of force is always done in pursuit of his underlying........