America has criminally invaded the independent country of Venezuela to thieve its massive oil reserves. Death & destruction of innocents to follow. The UN and member nations need a solid response of action, sanctions, boycotts, bans, isolation, and ICJ trials.

The Australian Government should issue a clear condemnation of what the United States under Donald Trump has done today. If it can’t, we should admit we’ve lost the courage to say something is wrong - even when it’s screamingly, catastrophically fucking wrong.

I condemn the US’ illegal aggression against Venezuela & the illegal abduction of its leader & his wife. Every Venezuelan life lost is a violation of the right to life. President Trump should be impeached & investigated for the alleged killings bbc.com/news/live/c5yq…

Trump, Putin, Netanyahu all trash international law. We are entering an extremely dangerous period globally. The US, once the guardian of the rule of international law is now a rogue aggressor.

fascist collaborators doing this the same day of the invasion. they knew and did it anyway to stay in good with Trump. it’s time to end the Nobel Prize

The US government spent 4years convincing you Russia is evil b/c it waged a war of aggression against another country.

Gutting the most basic norms of #InternationalLaw to facilitate a genocide in #Gaza has made possible the kidnapping of a sitting head of state & the commandeering of a sovereign state & describing it as “self-defense”The atrocities committed in Gaza cannot b contained #Venezuela

The kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife solidifies America’s role as a gangster state. Violence does not generate peace. It generates violence. The immolation of international and humanitarian law, as the U.S. and Israel have done in Gaza, and as took

Netanyahu is a wanted war criminal. Based on the events of the last 24 hours, any country can strike Israel, go in, and “capture” Netanyahu and his wife from their bed. And the media would describe it using exactly this language. Because, apparently, that’s allowed now, right?

Since coming to office 11 months ago on an anti-war promise, Trump has bombed seven countries: 🇮🇷 Iran 🇮🇶 Iraq 🇳🇬 Nigeria 🇸🇴 Somalia 🇸🇾 Syria 🇾🇪 Yemen 🇻🇪 Venezuela

The kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife solidifies America’s role as a gangster state.

The US has lost any pretence of legitimacy - Xi can do what he wants with Taiwan, Putin can play out his plans - and the US has nothing. And the Coalition is like ‘this is great’ and Labor is silent/‘gravely concerned’. Fab times.

The ‘Gaza Principle’ is now the norm — when the world permitted Israel to illegally and brutally decimate Gaza, it authorised the precedent that will now be applied. “Law becomes costume, sovereignty becomes conditional, and power stops pretending it needs permission.”

A reminder that the vast majority of Venezuelans reject Trump and America's handpicked dictator-in-waiting.

So technically, another head of state could go into Israel, kidnap the war criminal Netanyahu and his wife, and bring them back to the homeland to face justice? What are we waiting for?

This statement is hypocritical and inconsistent. The Prime Minister says we continue to support international law but our actions in relation to Israel and Palestine say otherwise. So too does the waffling support for 'dialogue and diplomacy' in support of 'international law

Chris Gilbert in #Caracas says people are now mobilising in the streets to oppose and resist US aggression and the attempt to seize #Venezuela. The civilian militia already has several million people carrying arms, alongside the Bolivarian armed forces.

Savages

My op-ed: “President Trump’s brazen attack on Venezuela has violated the most sacred rule of international law – the near-century old ban on use of force against another country. It returns the Americas to an era of gunboat diplomacy by imperial warlords”smh.com.au/national/austr…

Why are you using language that frames this story from a US perspective ABC News ? Maduro was abducted, not ‘captured’. He was not some criminal on the run.