• Deestan@lemmy.world
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    It is illegal, but their angle is that he wasn’t internationally or nationally recognized as a legitimate leader.

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      I’m gonna be honest, snatching a regular citizen (or hell, even a violent criminal) from a sovereign nation while you bomb the shit out of their capital doesn’t sound much less illegal.

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        Despite hating maduro, the problem with allowing random countries to allow these kind of initiatives is that it justifies others doing the same. For example, China could now kidnap the Japanese prime minister due to their oppression of the workers and unpaid debts for wrecking the country in WWW2. Or Russia could try and kidnap the Ukrainian president to “fight the Nazis”, oh wait, that’s what they tried to do. Get reckt Russia