Trump Shows Putin How To Do a Special Military Operation | Perspective
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Key Points:
- The U.S. conducted a swift "large-scale strike" in Venezuela, capturing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and flying them to a U.S. warship en route to New York, marking a significant escalation in U.S. intervention.
- The operation, lasting less than 30 minutes with no reported U.S. fatalities but some injuries, contrasts with Russia’s failed rapid leadership decapitation attempt in Ukraine, which resulted in prolonged conflict.
- Right-wing U.S. politicians praised the strike as a necessary law enforcement action against drug trafficking and a blow to an illegitimate dictator, while left-wing critics condemned it as illegal, reckless, and a dangerous precedent for international law.
- Legal challenges regarding jurisdiction and the legitimacy
