The US government has confiscated an airplane reportedly used by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, claiming it violates Washington’s sanctions against Caracas, CNN reported on Monday.
The US has charged Maduro with drug trafficking and refused to recognize his victory in the last two Venezuelan presidential elections.
“Seizing the foreign head of state’s plane is unheard-of for criminal matters. We’re sending a clear message here that no one is above the law, no one is above the reach of US sanctions,” an unnamed Washington official told CNN, which first reported the story on Monday.
According to CNN, the plane is worth around $13 million and was seized in cooperation with Dominican authorities.
You don’t seize an airplane when it’s not your country or property. You are just stealing.
US stole an airplane belonging to the head of state of a sovereign nation.
‘no one is above the law’… the level of self-importance here is actually insane.
World police, but they don’t go after their own oligarchs.
So, just regular police behaviour.
No one is above USA law is what they want to say
And no one is above the US law, except the US and their allies is what they’re thinking but hope doesn’t get around, cuz that would really put a wet blanket on the whole freedom scam.
US has charged Maduro with drug trafficking
Lmao they’re still going with this
That is the policy of Pax Americana to blame Communist/Socialist government for every problems in the respective country even when all evidences point to other causes.
Seizing the foreign head of state’s plane is unheard-of for criminal matters.
We’re sending a clear message here that no one is above the law
What law? There’s a law on the books where you can take a plane belonging to a foreign government while it’s located in a third country because you don’t like them?
The claim is the plane was purchased in the US and then exported to Venezuela in violation of domestic export controls
no one is above the reach of US sanctions
…? are the US sanctions in the room with us?
no one is above the law
unless theyre a US CEO, a US politician, part of the US Military Industrial Complex etc etc etc …lol
That part was what really made me want to roll my eyes. How is any adult still gullible enough to fall for this crap?
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“Barbarians raid another state for their plane”
Dominican republic L. are they stupid or what? this only hinders their own relations with venezuela.
so…venezuela is truly sanctioned? it wasn’t another lie of “the left”?
Seizing the foreign head of state’s plane is unheard-of for criminal matters. We’re sending a clear message here that no one is above the law, no one is above the reach of US sanctions,
Love to break laws of countries I’m not a fucking a citizen of or living in.
Only the us is fucking insane enough to use this logic
I think the word they’re looking for is
stealsVery cool and legal
Literal schoolyard bully behavior on display here. “No one is above the law, and the law is what I say it is.”
Rotten empire
I hope that someday, every single theft, every single extortion by the US is reparated back in full (and then some). And every single damned dollar they have sent out, they must also be made to honor in some fashion.
I’m not even talking about revenge here (though hell if I’d care if it were to happen at this point). Reparations are owed to the entire world, and if the US ceases to exist (because all of its land is owed to its indigenous peoples who have had everything stolen from them for centuries, and because it has stolen more than it itself has) then all the better for it. They owe everything and they shall pay everything, and if it requires the entire world to descend on the devil empire to restore what was taken from them, so be it. Not one ill-gotten penny should remain in the coffers of the west, not until their victims are made whole, and then mercy (that they have never had for others) can be considered. The entire world needs to unite on this principle, to ensure that the crackerverse never gets haughty ideas of world domination again- that even the damnable thought of it never rises again.
The US/collective west best make amends while they still have the time, and while they still haven’t pushed past the point of no return. But they won’t. And they will pay for it and pay in full, they must be made to.
Preach 100%
Yes, don’t you see, tankie? Maduro himself was smuggling drugs in with his private plane!
Yup! The head of state himself is so desperate for money that he’s smuggling drugs into a nation that is brutally sanctioning him when if he wanted to get involved in the narco trade there’s 4 different nations bordering them to do it in. That’s right, Tankie!
