i'm not concerned about whether the maduro kidnapping breaks international law. there's not really any such thing as international law, unless countries decide to abide by it, and the united states has long chosen not to do that. it's sort of absurd to hold the united states to standards it rejects, under the force of no body that can enforce it. the cliche is that the state is a monopoly on violence. so, whose army will tell the united states to obey the law?

i'm more concerned about whether the kidnapping of maduro breaks american law, and whether there may be domestic ramifications in us courts.