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by waffleiron 170 days ago
> Presumably US actions are backed by the people they consider to be legitimately elected representatives of Venezuelan government, and if so amount to little more than assistance in local law enforcement.

So any country could just assign some people as the legitimate government and do anything in any other country.

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Yeah, basically. The rest of the world, of course, gets to assess those claims on an individual basis.