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Trump's invasion is about 'controlling oil supplies', says reader
Donald Trump’s invasion of Venezuela (Metro, Mon) isn’t about restoring democracy – he has promised to sidetrack the probable winners of the last elections and says the US will ‘run’ the country.
Nor is it about fighting narco-terrorism – other countries in the region are far more involved than Venezuela.
As so often with the US, it is about controlling oil supplies. That was the motive for the invasion of Iraq – and look how that turned out. Roger Backhouse, York
‘The reason behind arrest of Venezuelan President is a grab for Venezuelan oil’, agrees reader
Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro might not be a pleasant individual and he probably fiddled the last election but how many more people could be ‘detained’ for similar reasons?
The reason behind his arrest is a grab for Venezuelan oil and the unlawful cessation of supplies to Cuba. Trump does not like Cuba and if he does more than just enforce an embargo on the large Caribbean island, the escalation could be catastrophic. Robert Boston, Kent
Reader says ‘Trump aspires to be an international policeman’
It appears that Trump aspires to be an international policeman – albeit one with an eye on how he might benefit.
Those of us who remember a time when the UN had more heft in world affairs may wonder whether we cannot go back to those times.
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After all, Tony Blair and George W Bush could tell Trump about the perils in trying to sort out problems in the world without clear legal backing. Andrew McLuskey, Middlesex
This reader compares Nicolas Maduro to Adolf Hitler
The idea that there is an ‘international order’ that can be neatly applied to international crises is laughable.
In his book, Nein!: Standing Up To Hitler 1935-1944, former Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown describes how the head of German military intelligence, Wilhelm Canaris, was prepared to stage a coup against Hitler – while a reluctant Neville Chamberlain all but dismissed it as undemocratic.
Maduro is not Hitler but it does not erase the point. Maduro’s victims are real, including those killed by the Venezuelan fentanyl Trump says is flooding the US.
Maduro’s alliance with the totalitarian regime in Iran places him firmly within the same authoritarian ideological family that once enabled fascism in Europe.
Yet many commentators still reach for legal formalism, as if legality detached from context were a moral achievement.
When law is treated as sacred and morality as optional the result is paralysis dressed as principle. David Frencel, London
What kind of ‘example’ is Trump setting?
Thanks to Trump, it’s now fair game to go into countries, steal their wealth and resources. Roger, Wolverhampton
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