Dem tells Venezuela's Guaid: 'You don't get to authorize US military interventions'

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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on Saturday warned Venezuelan opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaidó against any attempt to authorize U.S. military force to strengthen his claim to power.

“Mr. Guaido, you can proclaim yourself leader of Venezuela but you don’t get to authorize US military interventions. Only the US Congress can do that. We will not,” Khanna tweeted.

Link to tweet

The tweet came in response to an interview Guaidó gave on Friday in which he refused to rule out allowing U.S. forces to help push Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro from power, according to AFP.

Guaidó told AFP that he would do “everything that is necessary ... to save human lives” while acknowledging that US intervention is “a very controversial subject," the outlet reported.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/429275-dem-lawmaker-tells-venezuelas-guaido-you-dont-get-to-authorize-us-military

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1. Amazing, taking offense where none was obviously offered.

Military use of force in Venezuela would require two authorizations.

I don't see Guaido assuming that he could authorize the US side.

In fact, the same kind of one-sidedness could be said about Khanna's tweet: If the US wanted to station troops in Caracas, the only authorization need would be Congress'. (That's wrong on other grounds, of course.)

I suspect he wouldn't like that assumption made about what he said; he shouldn't make it about others.


I'm also not entirely sure that Congress would be needed. If Ireland asked the US to come in and help its government with something entirely internal, would Congressional authorization be required? If Canada asked the US to help with drug interdiction off the coast of British Columbia, would that require Congressional authorization?