Trump administration’s military strikes on Venezuela ‘illegal,’ say US Democratic lawmakers

Several US Democratic lawmakers on Saturday slammed the Trump administration’s military strikes on Venezuela, calling them “illegal,” Anadolu reports. “Second unjustified war in my life time. This war is illegal, it’s embarrassing that we went from the world cop to the world bully in less than one year. There is no reason for us to be at war with Venezuela,” Sen. Ruben Gallego said on US social media company X. His remarks came after President Donald Trump said early Saturday that the US had “successfully” carried out a “large scale strike” against Venezuela, and that President Nicolas Maduro and his wife had been “captured and flown out of the country.” Sen. Andy Kim sharply criticized the Trump administration, accusing senior […]