OldSolduer
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Nature abhors a vacuum and so do nations under a dictator. It could be messy.....
2025 U.S. - Venezuela conflict
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Eastern Europe and the Caucuses.
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Nothing like a little casual bigotry to add depth to the conversation.
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Hezbollah has been busy making inroads into Latin America.
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Having had to convert to Islam, anything that helps reduce or stops the spread of it, is a good thing.
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Anything is a very strong word when your talking about a billion people
Nah dude, it’ll totally work this time.
maybe in his mind. Asia is definitely dominated by China but Europe could easily swat down Putin if they were provoked enough.
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Just watched some footage of Madero in New York. I wonder if he could just claim diplomatic immunity in court making any sort of legal case immaterial. He is still the head of a nation.
So, absolutely he can and will make the claim of immunity that attaches to the person of a head of state / head of government while in office. It’s old and broadly recognized customary international law. But it’s not held as absolute; the inviolability of a head of state has not prevailed against allegations of crimes against humanity, or instance.
The Pinochet case in British court is an imperfect but still useful precedent. There’s a fair claim to be made that that’s where western judicial systems began to shift from the absolute inviolability of a head of state.
Against the legal path of trying to argue for piercing this conventional immunity to prosecute domestic U.S. crimes pertaining to drugs and firearms, a cleaner legal case might be to supersede the indictment to focus on alleging international crimes like torture or other crimes against humanity based on how Maduro ran his regime. That could be easier for US federal courts to navigate around sovereign immunity questions. With that said, any alleged crimes from before he was president would not be protected by that immunity, so depending on what’s alleged it may not matter. I’ve not yet read the indictment.
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Didn’t work for Noriega
Noriega was never formally the head of state nor head of government. Those who were were his puppets, yes, but it neatly sidesteps the legal question of a sovereign’s immunity.
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The duplicity is shocking.
The US is dead set against the International Court because it fears prosecution of US citizens outside of the US but then it goes off and doesn’t things like this and claims legitimacy.
Regardless of who comes after Trump, Canada and its people need to ensure that going forward we need to explore every single avenue of maintaining our independence, up to, and including, the edge case of our own nuclear weapons.
McG
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But it was all done out of altruism, wasn’t it?
