Rumors that the United States might imminently attack Caracas have emerged, less from a concrete invasion plan than a shift in language and posture. When a US president proclaims a “total and complete blockade” of oil tankers linked to a sovereign nation and justifies it by claiming that nation has “stolen” US oil and land, beyond questions of whether sanity has taken a break from the Oval Office, the United States is no longer in the realm of conventional sanctions policy. Rather, Washington is rehashing an older grammar of power, in which legality follows force rather than restrains it.
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