Will Trump/Hegseth war crimes obliterating small boats provoke Republicans to head off war with Venezuela?

Will Trump/Hegseth war crimes obliterating small boats provoke Republicans to head off war with Venezuela?

 

Last month 51 of 53 Republican senators voted to give Trump the green light to attack Venezuela. They voted down the bipartisan War Powers Resolution forbidding Trump’s planned criminal war to oust socialist president Nicholas Maduro. Trump wants a compliant US puppet to take over so the US can gobble up precious Venezuelan oil and other valuable resources.

 

Just 2 morally centered Republican senators, Rand Paul and Lisa Murkowski, voted with all 47 Democrats in their failed attempt to deter Trump’s dastardly planned invasion.

 

But the furor over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s grisly order to murder 2 survivors of the September 1st boat attack brings forth a renewed bipartisan War Powers Resolution which will be voted upon within 10 days.

 

The outrage over Hegseth’s grotesque war crimes in the Caribbean off Venezuela may be too much for the 51 loyal Trump Republicans to again flash the green light for Trump’s illegal invasion. It would just take 2 more principled Republicans to deep six Trump’s near certain attack if not prevented by Congress.

 

The 52 year old War Powers Resolution Act has never been invoked to prevent war. If passed Trump could simply ignore it and start his lusted after war since no mechanism in the War Powers authority exists to stop him.

 

However, passing it provides political risk to Trump if he ignores it and blunders into senseless war that will likely kill US service persons. It might give pause to even the most reckless president in US history when it comes to unleashing death and destruction on peaceful nations and peoples posing no treat whatsoever to the Homeland.

 

Come on Republican senators. Vote for peace instead of senseless war in Venezuela. .