"The overthrow and reported capture by invading US forces of Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela's hardline socialist president, will send a shiver of fear and consternation around the world. The coup is illegal, unprovoked and regionally and globally destabilising. It upends international norms, ignores sovereign territorial rights, and potentially creates an anarchic situation inside Venezuela itself. It is chaos made policy. But this is the world we now live in the world according to Donald Trump."
"In an echo of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, he is also accused of coveting Venezuela's huge oil and gas resources suspicions reinforced by repeated, illegal US seizures of Venezuelan oil tankers. But Trump's primary motives appear to be personal animosity directed at Maduro, and a desire to revive the 19th-century Monroe doctrine by creating a US sphere of influence and dominance throughout the west."
The US invasion overthrew and captured Nicolas Maduro, producing illegal, unprovoked, regionally and globally destabilising effects that upend international norms and risk anarchic collapse inside Venezuela. The action represents an extraordinary assertion of unfettered US power under Donald Trump, who also threatened military strikes against Iran. The US had escalated military, economic and political pressure on Maduro, including lethal maritime attacks and seizures of Venezuelan oil tankers. Alleged motives include stopping narcotics and migrants, coveting oil and gas resources, and reviving a Monroe Doctrine-style sphere of influence. Neighboring states and Cuba fear becoming targets of renewed aggressive US hegemony.
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