The U.S. bombing of Caracas, Venezuela, and kidnapping of its democratically elected president Nicolás Maduro in the early hours of January 3, of course, violated an international law regime that the U.S. Government has never had much respect for. Nonetheless, the openness of the discourse surrounding the U.S.' imperial bellicosity is novel in the modern era.
January 12, 2026
2026-01-12