When Trump is doing crazy stuff in the United States, Americans can take refuge in saying "well, I didn't vote for him!"
And when it is people inside the United States who are being hurt, international relations morality doesn't require that politicians in other countries speak out (though basic human decency may demand it.)
But when borders are crossed and the United States is trying to implement economic regime change in other countries, this refuge is denied.
That is when the political leaders of other countries MUST speak up, however uncomfortable or terrifying this is, to object to Trump's brazen attempts to tell everyone else what to do.
With the Venezuelan War, so far, Mexico has met the test. And so far, Canada really has not.
Tonda MacCharles / Toronto Star
Mexico denounces arrest of Venezuela’s president as Mark Carney issues carefully worded statement
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum dismissed Trump’s assertion of his America First doctrine, and the right to dominate the hemisphere in the name of U.S. national security.
...As Trump ramped up his own rhetoric to paint Colombia and Cuba as other states with failed leadership, and to muse about Denmark’s ability to secure Greenland, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum denounced the U.S. military action in Venezuela and called on Trump to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other nations.
“We categorically reject intervention in the internal affairs of other countries,” Sheinbaum said.
“Unilateral action and invasion cannot be the basis for international relations in the 21st century; they lead neither to peace nor to development,” Sheinbaum said in a strongly-worded three-page declaration Monday.
Sheinbaum referenced past U.S. presidential greats George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and dismissed Trump’s assertion of his America First doctrine, and the right to dominate the hemisphere in the name of U.S. national security.
“Mexico firmly maintains that the Americas do not belong to any doctrine or power. The American continent belongs to the peoples of each of the countries that comprise it,” Sheinbaum said, outlining all the ways Mexico is working with the U.S. to curb narcotics and weapons trafficking.
“Co-operation, yes; subordination and intervention no,” said Sheinbaum — a leader whom Trump has previously counted as an ally in his so-called war on fentanyl....
