The Dutch government will not officially condemn the United States for breaking international law following the abduction of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, foreign minister David van Weel said during a debate on Thursday. MPs from the foreign affairs committee had been recalled ahead of the official start of the parliamentary year to discuss the situation in Venezuela and its ramifications for nearby Caribbean islands Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao, as well as the American threat to Greenland. “Eight million Venezuelans have...
I don’t think this is a matter of being OK with it to anyone. It’s more a matter of there barely being any positive real-world effects of a condemnation, and plenty of negative ones. (Which is not to say I wouldn’t have liked a condemnation, but I’m just not sure what it would have brought us.)
I don’t think this is a matter of being OK with it to anyone. It’s more a matter of there barely being any positive real-world effects of a condemnation, and plenty of negative ones. (Which is not to say I wouldn’t have liked a condemnation, but I’m just not sure what it would have brought us.)
“Which is not to say I wouldn’t have liked a condemnation, but I’m just not sure what it would have brought us.”
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