Sovereignty Under Threat as ‘Big Brother’ Role ends in Maduro’s Capture

USA Defies Sovereignty, Captures Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro

Sov­er­eign­ty is not as brazen as Inter­na­tion­al Com­mu­ni­ty depicts it, sole depen­den­cy is on good­will of actors to abide. The loom­ing war between the left-wing and right-wing ide­o­log­i­cal blocs con­tin­ue to get deep­er; Venezuela being the most recent casu­al­ty.

Venezuela is lead­er­less; not laugh­able though but alarm­ing. Head of State get­ting arrest­ed by a for­eign pow­er, with sol­diers under­stand­ably not fight­ing back is just hilar­i­ous. What hap­pened to non-inter­fer­ence as one of the Inter­na­tion­al Law’s guid­ing prin­ci­ple? S o much for believ­ing in Sov­er­eign­ty.

I’ve read the Treaty of West­phalia over and over again. Maybe more than I should but I haven’t seen State­hood sys­tem jus­ti­fy­ing impe­ri­al­ism. If any­thing, a series of treaties lead­ing to the Peace of West­phalia demand for more of irri­den­tism. This does not at any point tell the entire sto­ry of the West­ern war, with a lit­tle of East­ern Euro­pean involve­ment.

The world has how­ev­er seen a lit­tle of world lead­ers pre­serv­ing peace. For starters, human ego­cen­tric nature as believed by Real­ists. It is not the first time a West­ern pow­er inter­fere with affairs of a ter­ri­to­ry that has noth­ing to do with them. I mean African and Asian Col­o­niza­tion could not be a joke. But this is about Venezuela. So let’s make it more about the Caribbean oil reser­voir.

USA had no busi­ness attack­ing Venezue­la’s sov­er­eign­ty. USA has no busi­ness at all med­dling into the affairs of any oth­er coun­try at all. I mean is this not what world peace is about? Speak­ing about bet­ter lives for the cit­i­zens of Venezuela is under­stand­able but open­ly talk­ing bout sell­ing their oil only sends one mes­sage- USA’s cap­ture of Nico­las Maduro was not about pro­mot­ing respect for human rights but to set hands on the rich oil deposits.

This is more like a cal­cu­lat­ed impe­ri­al­ism. Per­haps that’s why even the US Con­gress is divid­ed on whether to sup­port the move, or con­demn it as an act of aggres­sion, just like Russ­ian Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin did. Ver­mont Sen­a­tor Bernie Sanders is among US lead­ers who con­demned Trump’s ‘uni­lat­er­al’ actions terming it as rank impe­ri­al­ism.

“Trump’s attack on Venezuela will make the Unit­ed States and the world less safe. This brazen vio­la­tion of inter­na­tion­al law gives a green light to any nation on earth that may wish to attack anoth­er coun­try to seize their resources or change their gov­ern­ments.”

Sen­a­tor Bernie Sanders

 USA sets a very bad prece­dence. That any Head of State would decide to attack and top­ple any gov­ern­ment they approve not of he lead­er­ship for non-coop­er­a­tion. The foun­da­tion of USA is Democ­ra­cy, respect of the law (this should apply to Inter­na­tion­al Law too) and free­dom. The lead­er­ship has since gone against that, to an extreme point of want­i­ng to direct the fairs of a pow­er they are not part of.

This is how­ev­er not new. Some­one would ask why this has hap­pened in the Mid­dle East too (Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait) and even Africa (Libya). The attacked states have since been left more dev­as­tat­ed that they were before attack, high­light­ing the greed of the ‘Big Broth­er’ USA.

The Inter­na­tion­al Com­mu­ni­ty must be wor­ried. Is this part of the world peace that formed part of a dis­cus­sion lead­ing to sign­ing of the Unit­ed Nations Char­ter in 1945? The truth is, the cur­rent world is more threat­ened than before.