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Further to this, though not addressed by reporters or Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, these murderous U.S. strikes are taking place in the context of a huge build-up of U.S. forces near and around Venezuela.
U.S. attacking and seeking regime change in Venezuela. Canada waiting in the wings, quietly supporting
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/us-attacking-and-seeking-regime-change-in-venezuela
For what it is worth, international law does not say that each country decides themselves if they are violating the law. Quite obviously, this is not how law works anywhere, neither internationally, nationally, municipally or otherwise.
But this is, in fact, how the U.S. and countries of the U.S.-led Western Bloc (let us say Canada, Australia, England, France, Germany, Italy …) often operate with respect to international law.
If we, or a Western allie such as Israel, are challenged as to the legality of Israel’s Western-backed genocide in Palestine, the U.S.-led West and Israel continue to determine all by ourselves that it is not genocide, that it is a self-defense battle “against terrorists”. Thus, it is not genocide and the genocide continues.
However, if Russia, for example, invades a country, there is no question in our public statements that this is an obvious violation of international law.
In countless government statements and media reports in countries of the U.S.-led Western Bloc, one regularly learns of how Iran, Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, [enter name of most recent enemy ‘of the West’: ___), violate international law with impunity, all the time.
But not so, says Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, when the U.S. military, on orders from the Commander-In-Chief, slaughters 80+ unidentified people, in small boats, in “international waters” (for what it is worth), off the coast of Venezuela of Colombia … as the U.S. mobilizes tens of thousands of troops and a huge Naval fleet in the same region.
This is not a casual rant shared in anger and frustration. This very same Western hypocrisy and double standards characterize the contexts in which Rights Action has worked since the early 1990s.
The U.S. and Canadian-backed illegal military coup in Honduras in 2009 was, wait for it, not a coup. Rather, a corrupt President with ‘serious legal investigations pending against him’ “resigned”.
The next 13 years of U.S. and Canadian support for an open-for-global-business, military-backed, repressive, drug-trafficking regime was, again, not that at all. Rather, the U.S. and Canada maintained full diplomatic, economic and military relations with a “democratic allie”, while promoting the expansion of Canadian and U.S. business interests that “abide by the rule of law”.
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