By attacking Venezuela, seizing its president and promising to “run” the country indefinitely — all without any congressional or UN authorization — US President Donald Trump may well have shredded what little is left of international norms and opened the way to new acts of aggression from US rivals China and Russia on the world stage, some experts say.

Trump has added a particular layer of dementedness to the latest unprovoked US aggression.

Trump is no longer bending the rules – he is demolishing them, with consequences far beyond Caracas