Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says "differences" between the countries do not justify a "military conflict".

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says “differences” between the countries do not justify a “military conflict”.

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    306·
    7 days ago

    There can be multiple assholes…

    Like, Biden literally violated the Leahy law

    (a) IN GENERAL. – No assistance shall be furnished under this Act or the Arms Export Control Act to any unit of the security forces of a foreign country if the Secretary of State has credible information that such unit has committed a gross violation of human rights.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leahy_Law

    There was credible evidence US weapons were used in Israels’s genocide of Palestinians.

    Congress didn’t immediately approve more aid, so Biden unilaterally (and illegally) went around Congress to provide arms that then were used to commit genocide.

    Is trump worse?

    Fucking obviously.

    But Joe Biden is a fucking war criminal and Kamala repeatedly and proudly told anyone that would listen she’d be exactly the same.

    • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      22·
      7 days ago

      The Secretary of State is appointed by the President though.

      And I’m certain they argued there was no credible information Israel committed gross violations of human rights. Maybe it was only “normal” violations of human rights. Or maybe the information was somewhat incredible. Or maybe the Secretary of State said “LALALALALALALA” and closed their eyes and ears when presented with information so they didn’t technically have it.

    • EisFrei@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      7 days ago

      How far back do we need to go until we find a president that didn’t commit a war crime?

      • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
        73·
        7 days ago

        You could make a case for the Carter administration. The worst knocks against him were arms sales to Indonesia after their invasion of East Timor and to the Shah before the Iranian Revolution. Probably some reactionary leaders in South America too.

        Besides that you’d have to go all the way back to Hoover who may have been completely unequipped to resolve the Great Depression but did do a ton of work with humanitarian food aid during and in the wake of the First World War. It’s very likely he saved tens of millions of lives from starvation.

        • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          7 days ago

          Wow you’re really softballing the fact that Carter helped commit genocide there.

          • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
            43·
            7 days ago

            I think the blame mostly lies on Ford there, and I’d say my response speaks more to how low of a bar modern presidencies have set rather than my feelings on East Timor.

    • Zexks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      76·
      7 days ago

      Not fucking obvoously. Since these kinds of arguments led us to trump 2.0. So thanks for that.

      • locuester@lemmy.zipEnglish
        76·
        7 days ago

        The truth led us to Trump, so we should conceal it instead? What garbage.

        • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          32·
          7 days ago

          Lies and people willing to believe them because they fit their hateful worldview is what led us to Trump.

          Not “Truth”.

        • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
          24·
          6 days ago

          Locuester in a previous post: I don’t follow much politics, and I dont follow political history either.

          Well, that fucking scans.

          • locuester@lemmy.zipEnglish
            2·
            6 days ago

            So because I dont follow politics, my opinion that we shouldn’t conceal history is invalid?

            • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
              1·
              6 days ago

              If you don’t follow politics and understand political history, you can’t profess what truth is or is not.

              So, yes, you should not have an opinion if you do not understand the situation.

              That handy little truth statement you made is just the proliferation of propaganda.

              • locuester@lemmy.zipEnglish
                1·
                6 days ago

                I’m not the one that said there was some fact about Biden being a war criminal. Someone else did. Then someone else said it needs concealed. I simply said we shouldn’t conceal truths.

                If that statement about Biden being a war criminal isn’t true, lay it out there.

                As far as I can tell, all the USA leaders are criminals and belong behind bars, especially Trump, but what do I know?