'Trump’s Venezuela Action Was Brilliantly Executed; Venezuela Caught Flat-Footed': Yashvardhan Sinha

Yashvardhan Sinha, India’s former Ambassador to Venezuela, who has also served as High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom and, subsequently, as Chief Information Commissioner, said that Trump’s action in Venezuela to kidnap and spirit away the country’s president and his wife was “a brilliantly executed military operation”. Sinha added that “the Venezuelan military was caught flat-footed”.

However, Sinha declined to say that the US has become a rogue superpower under Trump even though in recent weeks it has carried out air strikes over Iran, Syria and Nigeria, repeatedly threatened to takeover Greenland, cast covetous eyes on Panama and is now threatening Colombia, Cuba and Mexico.

Sinha described the Indian response to what has happened in Venezuela as “circumspect” and “cautious” but he did seem to agree that it’s not becoming of the world’s largest democracy – which proudly calls itself the mother of democracy – to not comment about the kidnapping of a sovereign head of government.

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