{"id":907,"date":"2026-01-05T08:06:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/trumps-coup-in-venezuela-didnt-just-break-the-rules-it-showed-there-arent-any-well-all-regret-that-nesrine-malik-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T08:06:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:06:32","slug":"trumps-coup-in-venezuela-didnt-just-break-the-rules-it-showed-there-arent-any-well-all-regret-that-nesrine-malik-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/trumps-coup-in-venezuela-didnt-just-break-the-rules-it-showed-there-arent-any-well-all-regret-that-nesrine-malik-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s coup in Venezuela didn\u2019t just break the rules \u2013 it showed there aren\u2019t any. We\u2019ll all regret that | Nesrine Malik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not just the triumphalism in the White House. Leaders loth to oppose this gangsterism must think how that looks to Putin, Xi and in the UAEI never thought it possible that you could look back on the Iraq war, and the foreign invasions of the \u201cwar on terror\u201d in general, and feel some measure of nostalgia. For a time when there were at least concerted attempts to justify unilateral interventions and illegal wars in the name of global security, and even a moral duty to liberate the women of Afghanistan or \u201cfree the Iraqi people\u201d.Now, as the Venezuelan president, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, is in essence abducted and Venezuela taken over by the US, there is barely any effort to situate the coup in any reasoning other than the US\u2019s interests. Nor are there any attempts to solicit consent from domestic or international law-making bodies and allies, let alone the public. The days of the US trying to convince the world that Saddam Hussein did in fact have weapons of mass destruction despite secretly having no reliable intelligence were, in fact, the good old days. Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not just the triumphalism in the White House. Leaders loth to oppose this gangsterism must think how that looks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}