You may forget that the US drone strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats are still an open question and an ongoing story. The video evidence is scant, the scandal is real, but we still don't know the details. Who were those fishermen, who will tell their stories? How we learn more about what was real?
The kidnapping of the Maduro couple is another act that is related and still developing. In both of these cases, the events are distant and nebulous, uncertain as to where they land on a spectrum of good and evil.
But this murder of an American citizen in a senseless act of violence by its government is felt deeply because it is immediate and well-documented, highly visible and tragic, with hardly any of the uncertainties that distance from those other events bring.
I'm pointing out - for the umpteenth time - the sheer hypocrisy of the West, and especially the US.
What your regime has been practising since 1945 outside of your borders has finally reached your own towns and cities, and frankly the only question I have is, what took so long?
You left umpteenth behind a long time ago; you find hypocrisy everywhere, no?
https://open.substack.com/pub/grumpychineseguy/p/americans-d...
"American Samoa is the only U.S. state or territory where people are born without automatic citizenship, and without the right to vote in state, federal, and most local elections anywhere outside of American Samoa."
Hypocrisy, institutionalised.
https://boltsmag.org/prosecuted-for-voting-american-samoans-...
This unaccountable Gestapo analogue have, for example, been shown - in Congress - to be raping a whole lot of people. 'Losing' kids. Performing life-altering medical procedures without consent.
It's also worth pointing out that 'both' parties have raised ICE's budget every single year since their creation, including after the above reports were delivered.
Every US regime behaves this way: gunboat diplomacy goes back to the days of the banana republics, it was the United Fruit Company then, and oil today.
Fact is the US is run by oligarchs.
Peace presidents from Nixon onwards are just fronts for corporate interests. JFK was probably the only sane president since Roosevelt.
Edit: replaced correct term with "peace presidents."
Yeah, I've criticized those too. What's your point? Do you think I really saw this event and just now decided that Nuremburg-style trials would be in order?