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Who cares if he had the authority or not.
What matters is that the people of Venezuela did not consent to his imperialistic actions. Not whether he has authority to make imperialistic actions.
It also ignores that he clearly did the authority to do it, by virtue of having done it and not being stopped.
Don’t go giving states the authority to do things, and they won’t have any authority to do things.
Authority doesn’t make an act correct.
The people of Venezuela didn't consent to Maduro ruling over them either.
Only 32% of American voters consented to Trump ruling over them.
36% of eligible voters didn't vote. So 68% of Americans either wanted Trump or didn't really care.
Reactionary Venezuelan political parties will run on a platform of "Kill all the native peoples and sell our national assets for pennies on the dollar to a foreign oil company", lose outside of a few major petrochemical enclaves, and then complain the election was stolen.
Why do American liberals think J6 is cool in every other country but their own?
What are you talking about? Maduro is the Trump of Venezuela, rigging elections and preventing opponents from running, like the most recent Nobel Prize winner. Just because Trump is against someone doesn't automatically make that person the complete opposite of Trump.
Both Trump and Maduro are gangsters. Gangsters often take out other gangsters so they can take control of their territory. When you see a mafia hit do you automatically assume the guy that got whacked must have been anti-mafia LOL?