Wars of Convenience in a Zone of Peace – The Cost of Collaboration Grace Notes Essay In a region that styles itself a “Zone of Peace,” the Caribbean now wakes up to videos of boats being blown out of the water – grainy clips edited like a video game, pushed for ratings on cable news and fed into the endless scroll of social media. In one of those segments, Rachel Maddow walks viewers through something that should stop every Caribbean government, every law-trained leader, in their tracks. She explains that the Trump administration’s sudden “war” with Venezuela appears to have been reverse-engineered from a domestic deportation scheme: they wanted to use the Alien Enemies Act to expel people from the United States who were not otherwise deportable; that statute requires a state of war; so a “war with Venezuela” was declared, and only then did they scramble to invent a justification about drugs on the high seas. [source] While that legal fiction plays out in Washington, U....
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