Thread by @MarkWeisbrot

Dear @RichardHass -- Here are some reasons for the reaction against your support of US intervention/coup in Venezuela 1) It is illegal under the UN Charter, the OAS Charter, and conventions which the US government has signed (see thenation.com/article/trumps… <thread continues>

https://twitter.com/RichardHaass/status/1038577578112700416

2) The Trump financial embargo against Venezuela, also illegal under international law , is actively worsening the shortages of medicine and food and preventing most measures that would be needed to allow the economy to recover or alleviate these shortages

3) This is being done as part of a deliberate strategy to increase suffering in Venezuela so as to cause people there (including the military) to overthrow the government, which as been a goal of US policy for most of the last 16 years

4) The US Executive Order which authorizes the sanctions against Venezuela declares that Venezuela poses "an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security" of the US, which is absurd and therefore makes it of dubious legality under even US law

5) Most people in the world, if not in Washington DC, would see all of this as wrong and immoral

6) If any of the people who support such intervention really cared about people in Venezuela, they would propose/provide more humanitarian aid to refugees and also to Venezuela through e.g. Bolivia. And they would oppose the US financial embargo that is killing people.

Sorry I tagged the wrong Richard -- I meant @RichardHaass