Trump says US 'hit' dock in Venezuela, marking first known land attack
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President Donald Trump said that the United States "knocked out" a "big facility" in Venezuela last week.

“Well, it doesn’t matter, but there was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs,” Trump responded. “They load the boats up with drugs. So we hit all the boats and now we hit the area. It’s the implementation area. That’s where they implement. And that is no longer around.”

  • Cruxifux@feddit.nlEnglish
    101·
    6 days ago

    This is setting a precedent of “we can bomb anywhere whenever we want if we say its for drugs.” The UN is absolutely fucking useless.

            • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
              41·
              6 days ago

              it’s wild how if they wanted to just have like, even the optics of not being evil, they could have at least rebuilt it (even if it’s under western ownership and therefore rent seeking imperialist bullshit) but no I think they just bombed it and were like “welp I guess people are just going to die now”

              and blueMAGA still likes the clintons!

              • Cruxifux@feddit.nlEnglish
                6·
                6 days ago

                Why put the effort in when they don’t have to? Like you said, democrat voters still like the Clintons. At least enough that they just got away with it.

        • Coolkidbozzy [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          27·
          6 days ago

          Guardian correspondent Patrick Wintour elaborated that the plant “provided 50 per cent of Sudan’s medicines, and its destruction has left the country with no supplies of chloroquine, the standard treatment for malaria”. He also noted that the British government (who publicly supported the U.S. decision to bomb the factory) refused requests “to resupply chloroquine in emergency relief until such time as the Sudanese can rebuild their pharmaceutical production”.[20] The factory was a principal source of Sudan’s anti-malaria and veterinary drugs according to the CBW (Chemical & Biological Weapons) Conventions Bulletin.[21]

          demons are real and they are neoliberals

          they were never able to rebuild their chloroquine production, but another drug eventually was produced partially with Chinese support

          https://english.news.cn/20220426/23bf960450b24de5b696d7993a2df80b/c.html

      • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        25·
        6 days ago

        Just structurally, it’s pretty much enshrined in international law that the security council members can do whatever they want without any mechanism for the others to stop them.

    • plinky [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      33·
      6 days ago

      un was always useless against usa, but now europe is even more complicit than usual (their media doesn’t even try to feign outrage over usa behavior, which they did during iraq)

    • TheLastHero [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      29·
      6 days ago

      The UN is not “above” the US, it has no power besides what its member states give it, which has always been not much. But thats the only way states would particpate at all

      • Cruxifux@feddit.nlEnglish
        13·
        6 days ago

        The fact that the CIA considers the UN to be a tool for US imperialism is all you need to know about the UN. But it still frustrates me that they can’t or wont do ANYTHING EVER.