As promised, here are the key points from US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has spoken to US media outlets this morning.

  • This is “not a war against Venezuela”, he says - this follows strikes on the country on Saturday and the extraction of its president, Nicolás Maduro
  • The US will judge Venezuela by “what they do” next, Rubio says, adding that Washington will keep “multiple levers of leverage” to protect its interests
  • Speaking to ABC, Rubio says congressional authorisation wasn’t needed before the operation “because this wasn’t an invasion”
  • He says that he hopes Maduro’s removal will lead to “a better Venezuela”, but adds that the “number one objective is America”
  • Asked whether he thinks Interim President Delcy Rodríguez is now the legitimate president of Venezuela, he says the US does not believe the regime is legitimate
  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    11 days ago

    Iran is not at war with Israel.

    China is not at war with Taiwan.

    Gotta conform to what the lying propagandists you trust are saying, amirite?

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        10 days ago

        Iran supplies weapons to Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, chant “death to Israel” while enriching uranium for building nuclear weapons.

        “Unprovoked” LOL.

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          8 days ago

          israel supplies weapons to terrorists in Iran and Syria, posseses nuclear weapons, and refuses IAEA inspections, and is committing genocide in Palestine. What’s your point?

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            6 days ago

            Do you think the world would be a better place if there was one more more oppressive theocratic country with nuclear weapons?