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Non paywalled version https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-us-explosions-caracas-ca712a67aaefc30b1831f5bf0b50665e
(Thanks to @AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world )
If Russian Spetznats swooped in and kidnapped Zelensky, the West would be up in arms about this rogue terror state. But when American terrorists kidnap the President of a sovereign country, liberals are all “gosh, I’m not sure if this is a good thing”
I’m an American liberal and this is absolutely terrorism at the highest order. Blatant disregard of international law and any US president would be just as culpable and evil as this particular “President”.
Europe dithered for days before they found out whether Ukraine would fight back or not…turns out Zelensky and Ukraine stood firm and decided to fight (and the russians were stupidly overconfident and misinformed). For 3 days nobody knew if Kiev would fall, Spetznats did try to kidnap Zelensky. Nobody wanted to stick their necks out for Ukraine if it was a lost cause…but it turned out there really was strong support against russia.
Now let’s see for Venezuela…