"The UK's reported decision to restrict intelligence-sharing with the Pentagon on suspected drug-traffickers' boats in the Caribbean is a modest yet symbolic act of resistance to Donald Trump's imperialist revival. Britain is said to have objected to repeated, lethal US airstrikes on alleged smugglers off Venezuela's coast which have been widely condemned as illegal extrajudicial killings amounting to murder. The strikes appear to foreshadow direct US attacks on Venezuela itself."
"But Trump doesn't care. He believes that he and his country are above the law, that might makes right. Call it by its name: this is exactly the kind of brash, monarchic imperialism that the New World colonists famously rebelled against. The self-aggrandising, regionally expansionist outlook of the second Trump administration is the most striking recent manifestation of the new era of state lawlessness that has taken hold around the world."
Britain limited intelligence-sharing with the Pentagon over suspected drug-traffickers' boats in the Caribbean in response to repeated lethal US airstrikes off Venezuela's coast that have been widely condemned as illegal extrajudicial killings. The strikes signal a possible lead-up to direct US attacks on Venezuela as the Trump administration seeks to topple Nicolas Maduro. Most Venezuelans support regime change but oppose foreign-imposed coercion, which contravenes international law unless UN-authorised or in self-defence. The US lacks a persuasive legal justification for war, yet administration rhetoric frames opponents as narco-terrorists. This posture exemplifies a broader rise in state lawlessness and erosion of cooperative global norms.
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