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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has defended the United States’ military operation that removed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from power, describing the raid as “morally right” despite legal and diplomatic controversy.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Tuesday, Badenoch said she did not fully understand the legal basis for the operation but argued that Maduro was overseeing a “brutal regime,” and she was “glad he’s gone.”

“Where the legal certainty is not yet clear, morally, I do think it was the right thing to do,” she said, adding that her childhood in Nigeria under military dictatorships gave her insight into life under authoritarian rule. “I grew up under a military dictatorship, so I know what it’s like to have someone like Maduro in charge.”

However, Badenoch cautioned that the raid raised “serious questions about the rules-based order,” and stressed that it was different from interventions in democratic countries. She cited Greenland, saying the territory’s future was rightly a matter for Denmark and its people.


The UK government has so far avoided directly criticising the US action, describing Maduro as an “illegitimate president.” Opposition parties—including Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the Green Party, and the SNP—have called for the government to condemn the operation and declare it illegal.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting defended the government’s approach, arguing that the prime minister was acting in the UK’s national interest and the “best interests of the people of Venezuela.” Critics, including Labour MP Emily Thornberry, have warned that the raid could embolden countries such as Russia and China, and stressed that the UK should clarify its stance on international law.

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said she had reminded her US counterpart of his obligations under international law but reiterated that it was for the US to set out the legal justification for its actions.

Source: https://punchng.com/us-raid-to-remove-maduro-was-morally-right-says-badenoch

Is kidnapping morally right?

These western leaders always have double standards and they know how to lie and manipulate things for their own interest

The US have killed people in Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq and many other places, how is it morally right.

To be sincere, leaders do not think in moral terms, they think more about self interest rather.

Any attempt to justify this act as moral is an attempt to manipulate average people who are easily swing along with what politicians says

Wannabe has dropped her opinion!

She feels bootlicking her masters makes her one!

The generations of those that carried the white with their shoulders.

motymop:
Is kidnapping morally right?

These western people always double standards.

Kidnapping a dictator who refuses to abdicate from office after loosing election is morally right. Same fate awaits anyone who looses 2027 election and refuse to vacate office.

Orlandoo:
Kidnapping a dictator who refuses to abdicate from office after loosing election is morally right. Same fate awaits anyone who looses 2027 election and refuse to vacate office.

There is nothing like morally right in politics. If you believe anything a politician says, then you are naive

Btw, Is he the only dictator in the world.

You are only called a dictator if you don't play by the western rules of interest

HacheNoire:
Wannabe has dropped her opinion!

She feels bootlicking her masters makes one!

The generations of those that carried the white with their shoulders.

When it suits you right you label her 'our beloved Yoruba daughter' but when it doesn't suit you she becomes a wannabe.

She doesn't fully understand...

Yet she is in support? what a woman!

SUPREME JUSTICE IS INTERNATIONAL RIGHTEOUS LOGIC.

Orlandoo:
Kidnapping a dictator who refuses to abdicate from office after loosing election is morally right. Same fate awaits anyone who looses 2027 election and refuse to vacate office.

US is in bed with Saudi Arabia,UAE,Jordan and many other countries that has never conducted election.


Election rigging happens every where even trump said he was rigged. Again what happened to Kim that doesn't do election.


Please make it make sense

If Maduro has been good to his Venezuela citizens, it would have been sweet to blame the bully-man of America, but when you yourself is slave-master to your own people, what would people say? Rather than applaud the senior tyrant.

Who is Next on US lists ?
Na Ja...

Kidnapping is morally right?.

I don't even understand all this people sef.

So if you rape your enemy, is that morally right too?.

I don't even understand how these persons reason

motymop:
Is kidnapping morally right?

These western leaders always have double standards and they know how to lie and manipulate things for their own interest

The US have killed people in Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq and many other places, how is it morally right.

To be sincere, leaders do not think in moral terms, they think more about self interest rather.

Any attempt to justify this act as moral is an attempt to manipulate average people who are easily swing along with what politicians says

Nigerian government kidnapped Nnamdi Kanu and jailed him, was that morally right?

HacheNoire:
Wannabe has dropped her opinion!

She feels bootlicking her masters makes her one!

The generations of those that carried the white with their shoulders.

Her generation carried White on their shoulders, the same way you are carrying Arabs on your shoulders today like a sliave because of reeligieon.

So, how are you different or better?!

I foresee this statement being said of Nigeria,in future.

Indirect message to Tinubu, hand go soon touch Emilokan

Kemi is trying to play along with the big daddy.

No balls, no firmness. Just manipulative as expected.

Yes, sh is correct, " it is morally right to remove the pain of a people"

But the process of removal may not be legal.. but if u way the pros and cons, they trump is correct!

Anything this one supports is negative

I noticed that the people against Maduro's arrest on this platform are all ewedu merchants. Tinubu and APC online donkeys.

Was wondering why not Kenya president l, cameroun president, Belarus etc.
If it's about been dictatorship? I just feel all these has open up doors for powerful countries to do anyhow now... Russia/ Ukraine, China/ Hong Kong, North korea/ south Korea etc.

Sorry who is this again? Can someone remind me who is Kem Badnoch? Ii think I heard about that name sometime ago when she was talking nonsense.

I will wait for what she will say when the US militarily attacks Greenland, a NATO partners territory.

Let Kemi be playing politics.

EU has put themselves in a place to be trampled upon by the US due to courting favours from the US. They have what it takes economically and militarily to stand on their own but they won’t because they are used to spending money on social services for their citizens while looking up to the US for military defence.

The hen is gradually coming home to roost.

Venezuela was supporting Iran and God wan deal with Iran & Allah.
So he had to go

motymop:
Is kidnapping morally right?

These western leaders always have double standards and they know how to lie and manipulate things for their own interest

The US have killed people in Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq and many other places, how is it morally right.

To be sincere, leaders do not think in moral terms, they think more about self interest rather.

Any attempt to justify this act as moral is an attempt to manipulate average people who are easily swing along with what politicians says

The US might wrong in legal perspectives but the citizens all over the world are happy, that's the point of contention. It sends signals to autocratic rulers all over the world, including Africa

I wish she will become PM so that she can show blacks especially nigerians premium shege.

It's morally right, you can't rule people that don't want you.

This woman still Dey ? I haven’t forgotten what she said last time o

Won't male you Prime Minister nor white.