Is UNFTR an o.k. source? - "The Truth Behind Maduro's Capture/sic"

[Ms. Toad]

8. The problem is that the hype got ahead of the purported legal justification for the fiasco.

Explaining why it was illegal as regime change, or to punish for war crimes, or as a military action, doesn't address the formal justification for it which appeared almost as an afterthought to all of Trump's bluster.

Any analysis needs to focus on destroying the justification that he was indicted by a grand jury in the state of New York, for crimes under US law (not for the international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression), and it wasn't a military action - it was military support for a purportedly legal seizure of an indicted defendant under US law.

I don't for a second believe it was legal - but to prove that we have to get off the path of focusing on proving Trump's bluster was illegal - and start focusing on proving that the behind the scenes legal justification (seizing someone in their own country under the authority of a grand jury indictment, with military support) was also illegal.