The heinous crime we have witnessed is criminal, and obvious trashing of international law.
Cue the ‘serious’ media and politicians of the sycophantic West wagging the finger at Maduro, the elected Head of State, and side stepping the issue of legality entirely. ‘It is legal because we make it so!’, they effectively say. In reality the sycophants to Washington are titillated by this show of illegality, and show themselves as never having believed in international law in the first place.
And not one segment by the MSM on the civilian casualties by this naked act of aggression.
The disgraceful ABC last night spent some 3 minutes talking about how this will provide an opportunity for oil producers. Capitalist greed and business opportunities from kidnapping and murder.
Great analysis. America persists as the West’s “indispensable nation,” not by invitation but by compulsion. The American empire, long invisible, now stands in stark relief: assertive, unavoidable, and increasingly defined by coercion rather than consent. Australia is part of America's empire, and I have no doubt that we would send troops to support a US-initiated war in Latin America if the former asked for them. We have not refused such requests since they took suzerain control of us in 1942. Why would we now?
Brilliantly well said , Joel 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻The trashing of International Law continues apace , and the Australian government states that all it sees fit to do or say is to “monitor the situation”. Much as it refuses to condemn the genocide occurring in Palestine . When this weakness prevails it seems that the US could well see Australia as its next target ; its vassal state .
The grovelling of Marles to deeply confirm the AUKUS catastrophe must be music to the ears of “Kegstand “ . He will only demand more …… “ Come in Sucker “ . 😳😳
The Technate States of America rides roughshod again over human rights and indigenous lives, their leaders crying yee-haw, and letting slip the servants of war crimes, their fascist voters group-thinking themselves into a phantom menace-inspired frenzy of fear and loathing of the 'other', to forget about how badly they are supporting g3n0c1d3 and wars of aggression.
I support a legal Australian sanction on this latest US war crime, and a boycott. The price of defending a hard-campaigned, hard-evolved justice system from occasional bursts of foreign tyrant imperialism & domestic complicity is actually having to lift a finger (and maybe even risk one), since apathy only ever empowered tyrants.
Geoffrey Robertson KC, a founding head of Doughty Street Chambers and a former president of the UN war crimes court in Sierra Leone, said the attack on Venezuela was contrary to article 2(4) of the charter. “The reality is that America is in breach of the United Nations charter,” he added. “It has committed the crime of aggression, which the court at Nuremberg described as the supreme crime, it’s the worst crime of all.”
'Australia has a stake in an international order underpinned by international law, peace and non-aggression and this latest US attack is a fundamental breach of these principles.
Trump’s assault on Venezuela provides comfort to Vladimir Putin for his aggression in Ukraine, cover for a potential Chinese attack on Taiwan and sets an extremely dangerous precedent.'
That paragraph starting with 'disappointing responses' nails recent Australian government responses to world events perfectly Joel. An unequivocal slapdown of their feeble-minded, supine contributions.
Thank you Joel for this analysis.
The heinous crime we have witnessed is criminal, and obvious trashing of international law.
Cue the ‘serious’ media and politicians of the sycophantic West wagging the finger at Maduro, the elected Head of State, and side stepping the issue of legality entirely. ‘It is legal because we make it so!’, they effectively say. In reality the sycophants to Washington are titillated by this show of illegality, and show themselves as never having believed in international law in the first place.
And not one segment by the MSM on the civilian casualties by this naked act of aggression.
The disgraceful ABC last night spent some 3 minutes talking about how this will provide an opportunity for oil producers. Capitalist greed and business opportunities from kidnapping and murder.
I haven’t watched the ABC since they ceased to report facts rather than propaganda , so I missed that little nugget 😱.
Obviously now working to instructions , on pain of job loss . Vale journalism and factual reporting.
Sadly, I too have stopped watching the ABC
Great analysis. America persists as the West’s “indispensable nation,” not by invitation but by compulsion. The American empire, long invisible, now stands in stark relief: assertive, unavoidable, and increasingly defined by coercion rather than consent. Australia is part of America's empire, and I have no doubt that we would send troops to support a US-initiated war in Latin America if the former asked for them. We have not refused such requests since they took suzerain control of us in 1942. Why would we now?
Brilliantly well said , Joel 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻The trashing of International Law continues apace , and the Australian government states that all it sees fit to do or say is to “monitor the situation”. Much as it refuses to condemn the genocide occurring in Palestine . When this weakness prevails it seems that the US could well see Australia as its next target ; its vassal state .
The grovelling of Marles to deeply confirm the AUKUS catastrophe must be music to the ears of “Kegstand “ . He will only demand more …… “ Come in Sucker “ . 😳😳
The Technate States of America rides roughshod again over human rights and indigenous lives, their leaders crying yee-haw, and letting slip the servants of war crimes, their fascist voters group-thinking themselves into a phantom menace-inspired frenzy of fear and loathing of the 'other', to forget about how badly they are supporting g3n0c1d3 and wars of aggression.
I support a legal Australian sanction on this latest US war crime, and a boycott. The price of defending a hard-campaigned, hard-evolved justice system from occasional bursts of foreign tyrant imperialism & domestic complicity is actually having to lift a finger (and maybe even risk one), since apathy only ever empowered tyrants.
https://ipan.org.au/australia-must-condemn-illegal-us-invasion-of-venezuela-and-uphold-international-law-media-release-5-january-2025/
Geoffrey Robertson KC, a founding head of Doughty Street Chambers and a former president of the UN war crimes court in Sierra Leone, said the attack on Venezuela was contrary to article 2(4) of the charter. “The reality is that America is in breach of the United Nations charter,” he added. “It has committed the crime of aggression, which the court at Nuremberg described as the supreme crime, it’s the worst crime of all.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/03/is-there-any-legal-justification-for-the-us-attack-on-venezuela-trump-maduro
The alternative appears to be more authoritarianism, lawlessness, and violence.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/10/un-experts-condemn-coercive-intervention-venezuela-united-states
'Australia has a stake in an international order underpinned by international law, peace and non-aggression and this latest US attack is a fundamental breach of these principles.
Trump’s assault on Venezuela provides comfort to Vladimir Putin for his aggression in Ukraine, cover for a potential Chinese attack on Taiwan and sets an extremely dangerous precedent.'
https://greens.org.au/news/media-release/australia-must-oppose-us-aggression-venezuela
That paragraph starting with 'disappointing responses' nails recent Australian government responses to world events perfectly Joel. An unequivocal slapdown of their feeble-minded, supine contributions.