The more European countries act as colonies, unable and unwilling to stand up to Trump, the more they\u2019ll be treated as suchThere is no two without a three, as we say in Italian. After their complicit silence on Israel\u2019s war crimes in Gaza and their tacit acceptance of the US\/Israel attack on Iran, Europeans now hesitate to condemn the US\u2019s audacious military operation to bring about regime change in Venezuela. With few notable exceptions \u2013 such as Spain, the Netherlands and Norway \u2013 most European leaders have fudged their response. Spain, in fact, has acted without its EU partners, condemning the US attack alongside a group of Latin American countries. European governments seem unable to utter in the same breath that, although Nicol\u00e1s Maduro was an illegitimate dictator, the US attack to topple him is a gross violation of international law.The French president, Emmanuel Macron, the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, at least made reference to international law, while emphasising that they shed no tears for the end of Maduro\u2019s regime. Others, such as the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, strangely talked about looking into the legality of the US military action, as if there were any doubt about its nature. Worse still, Trump-friendly Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni defined this act of external military intervention as \u201clegitimate\u201d self-defence against narco-trafficking.Nathalie Tocci is a Guardian Europe columnist Continue reading…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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