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US armed forces’ seizure of the oil tanker constituted an unlawful use of force in violation of the UN Charter. This is the largest military buildup of US firepower in the Caribbean in decades. If regime change succeeds in Venezuela, Cuba may be next

From Venezuela to Yemen to Iran, the extrajudicial slaughter of civilians has been allowed to continue. What we are witnessing in the Caribbean and elsewhere today has been years in the making. Who will put a stop to it?

After viewing the video of the second strike, Representative Jim Himes said, “You have two individuals in clear distress without any means of locomotion with a destroyed vessel, who were killed by the United States.”

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To contest the legitimacy of Trump/Hegseth initiatives we need to intertwine empathy for rank and file members of the military placed in situations they never should have been, with antipathy for those decisions and decision-makers.

Though many wrote it off as a political stunt, it was clear the gathering was much more important than many realized, offering the clearest articulation yet of how the Trump administration thinks about and hopes to use military power.