re: US' capture of Maduro likely broke international law according to experts

There is no such thing as international law. International law is whatever we agree to.

As a blanket rule? I doubt it.

Against someone like Osama that did what he did? Probably.

I'll say it - right now the Trump Doctrine is the ONLY thing keeping this world from completely going off the edge.

Nicolas Maduro got feisty and President Trump nailed his arse. Now every despot in the world knows that if you don't stop your shite he will ruin your day.

Frick these mail order international lawyers.

President Trump is right about..........everything.

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Next, take all our money back and end all foreign aid

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It’s pretty clear that the forced arrest is not justified in international law as self defense. If we assert self defense because drugs come from there, then self defense can be anything, and there is no law.

The second issue that I see is that heads of state generally have immunity for actions as heads of state. That principle protects our own past presidents from foreign trial. Law is a two way street.

What we will hear in coming days (and what I haven’t seen discussed yet) is the argument that Maduro was not actually a head of state. He lost the election and nullified the result, and so he does not have immunity because he wasn’t elected. That argument will probably prevail, but it is close because has has actually acted as a head of state for some time.

The issue in international law is the seizure by force of Maduro and his wife absent a war or any actual attack by Venezuela. There’s no exception that would apply here. But this is also the most likely issue to get swept aside because we are past that.

This isn’t a legal operation despite the desperate efforts to frame it that way. But that won’t undo it either.

How about Gaddafi?

If you say so. That’s nothing something I said.

Cool. I never said anything about the arrest being legitimate or not.

I voted for that!