alt Hacker NewsSo the US will be excluded from the SWIFT banking system? Heavy international sanctions will be put in place? Europe will send weapons and money to help Venezuela defend itself?
No? Oh... just checking.
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jeltz • last Saturday at 8:43 PM
If the EU could we would.
jopsen • last Saturday at 9:54 PM
It would be fun to station a few French nukes on Greenland as a response :)
But probably the wise choice is doing nothing publicly. Behind the scenes stop buying US weapon systems.
Phelinofist • last Saturday at 8:25 PM
The key difference is: tHe Us BrInGs DeMoCrAcY
They extradited a guy for crimes also illegal in Venezuela. What would the point of sanctioning actions like this be?
This is about the cleanest extraterritorial action you can take. A guy probably did some seriously illegal stuff in your country and his, who was probably illegally elected, who probably had people killed.
Why not do this? Why not say to Venezuela, hand him over or we'll take him ourselves?
He's not going to gitmo, he'll have the same due process that every other American gets. Rights Maduro denied to millions. If you asked me to describe "justice" - I have to give this as a good example. He's going to die in prison like Noriega, after a fair trial.