Johnny TaylorJan 4
Eric A. Meyer
Shades of the 1989 attack on Panama to capture Noriega. Only shades, though: pretty sure Bush hadn’t just pardoned another President for the exact same thing he then claimed to be attacking another country over.
Jan 3 at 6:21pmMetatext
Show threadDianeJan 4

@Meyerweb

@BlackAzizAnansi had a pretty insightful take about the invasion.

https://mas.to/@BlackAzizAnansi/115832415632993516

Show threadEric A. MeyerJan 4
@BlackAzizAnansi @alienghic As he usually does.
Show threadJoe CrawfordJan 5
@Meyerweb For those of us who remember that time, this is a nice interview that gets at what was similar and different to the recent dodgy US actions. https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-brazen-illegality-of-trumps-venezuela-operation
The Brazen Illegality of Trump’s Venezuela Operation

Isaac Chotiner interviews Oona Hathaway, a professor at Yale Law School, about the legality of the U.S. strike in Venezuela and the capture of the country’s President, Nicolás Maduro.

The New Yorker