Brother Bemused

Venezuelan misadventure

In light of the administration's Venezuelan misadventure I offer this thought exercise:

What would be the US response if another nation were to determine that President Trump is a war criminal, issued a warrant for his arrest, and in a military exercise knocked out our defense system, killed 60 Secret Service personnel and used flash grenades in the White House, capturing the president and his wife, flying them out of the country for trial?

One of the famous Atlantes sculptures by the French artist Pierre Puget

And what if that country explained their incursion of a sovereign state by describing it not as an act of war but as a legal "law enforcement action?'

And a final question, If our administration's actions in Venezuela were as righteous and justifiable as some claim, couldn't any other nation use the same argument to justify their invasion of the US? By international law and long-held custom, a preemptive attack on a sovereign nation is illegal and an act of war.

"American exceptionalism" is no exception.