A Comment On Recent USA International Actions…

There has been considerable reporting of events occurring within the USA, with quite strong and polarised opinions being expressed. From my viewpoint here in the UK, I believe that actions the USA government has been taking against its own population are for United Statesians to consider, and to then react to at the ballot box as they see fit, and I will therefore not comment on them here.

However, many of the USA’s recent international actions are a matter of concern for everybody around the globe, including (as examples):

• the extrajudicial killing of people in small boats from Venezuela in international waters
  – that sounds a lot like Murder,
• seizing tankers in international waters, for allegedly breaking USA oil sanctions, with a stated USA intent to “… keep it” [ie the oil]”, adding: “… maybe we will sell it, maybe we will keep it. Maybe we’ll use it in the Strategic Reserves. We’re keeping the ships also…”
  – that sounds a lot like Piracy,
• threatening the sovereignty and territorial integrity of long-standing allies and NATO members, like Canada and Greenland, for example
  – that sounds a lot like Intimidation and Threats of Acts of War,
• military attacks on Venezuela including the abduction of its President and his wife, then saying the USA “will run Venezuela” and seek to fix its “broken” oil infrastructure
  – that sounds a lot like actual Acts of War.

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If the international community and United Nations allow the USA to do this, who is next?

All of Latin America?
Greenland? Other Nordics?

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European democracies will not tolerate the USA attempting to impose their will on them by force, and it is clear that Canada has stood up strongly against its belligerent neighbour. European nations and Canada have sufficient economic, military (both France and the UK are nuclear-armed members of NATO) and political resources to resist USA pressuring, and they are already pulling closer together in response to actions taken by the USA.

At every election, for every level of government, United Statesians have an opportunity to vote for change. Otherwise, I believe that the USA will, and should, become an isolated State, as other Nations enter into treaties to ignore and work around them.