About That 'International Law' Argument...
David Strom 12:00 PM | January 06, 2026
As I wrote yesterday, the 'international law' smokescreen being used to obscure the righteousness of Trump's capture of Venezuela's phony president, Nicholas Maduro, is a bunch of hooey.
International law is a convenient fiction. It is the name we give to agreements and norms that can be enforced by the will of powerful states, which, in most cases, agree to be bound by a set of rules to reduce violence and friction in a system that would otherwise be anarchic.
But these rules are "law" in name only, since enforcing laws requires a sovereign with the ability and willingness to do so. Instead, we live in a world where Somalia now heads the United Nations Security Council.
Still, Democrats across the country have joined forces with Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and the United Nations—all scoundrels well known for their adherence to international law and commitment to a peaceful world—to decry Trump's arrest of Maduro as "illegal."
Which begs the question: even if we believed that international law was a real thing, would this operation have been illegal?
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