Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky.com · Jan 5 Let’s call things by their proper names: Maduro’s capture is not a victory for international law. It is a demonstration of Western — above all American — power, and of a readiness to use that power in international politics. [1/3]
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Yes, this is worse than a world in which international law is genuinely upheld. But it is better than the alternative we have been slowly and steadily drifting toward — a world where democracies are seen as weak, indecisive, and incapable of direct armed confrontation. [2/3]
After all, it was not an intervention of democracy, but of Trump.