What Trump’s capture of Maduro means to Putin and Xi
Few will shed a tear for the dictator, but the raid against Nicolas Maduro is the US president’s most brazen flouting of international law. The autocratic leaders of China and Russia are watching.
Donald Trump was elected to keep America out of foreign wars – now he has become an occupying power through his extraordinary snatching of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro.
But the shockwave of Trump’s actions will reverberate far beyond smashing the “narco-terrorists” flooding the US with drugs, or taking over Venezuela’s lucrative oil reserves.
