"It is highly unusual for any government, any sovereign nation, to violate the airspace and territory of another sovereign nation and hit the grab and go on their president. Look, no one knows how this operation is gonna work out, he added. But based on the United States' track record, my guess is we're going to be really happy about this for a couple of weeks."
"We're going to be taking out a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground, Trump said. We need total access. We need access to the oil. Oil. Precious commodity, certainly but not the reason a country, formed 250 years ago on the ideas of liberty and self-determination, would go into a country and snatch a man at night, said Stewart. There must be a slightly more noble pretense. Is this your first war? I mean, what the fuck?"
The Trump administration carried out a surprise pre-dawn military operation in Caracas that resulted in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro. More than a dozen countries condemned the incursion at the UN as a crime of aggression. Critics condemned the action as a violation of Venezuelan sovereignty and warned of likely long-term blowback, including a future leftist uprising and damage to U.S. political standing. Public emphasis on securing oil access undermined stated justifications such as stopping drug trafficking. Observers also highlighted vague plans for governing Venezuela after Maduro's removal and raised legal and practical concerns about the intervention.
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