General Discussion

There are lots of dictators and some of them are US allies. Trump pardoned a head of state for drug trafficking charges so even the justification is hypocritical and based on double standards.

I generally don't like that the US has a foreign policy with double standards and is hypocritical in the process. Democrats generally lose in Florida and the Venezuelans there voted for Trump by roughly 60%. At the same time we don't topple every dictator that people flee from. I don't worry about someone calling themselves Democratic Socialists when their policies are closer to Social Democrats in the Scandinavian countries. They are so easy to defend but the rhetoric is effective for primaries.

My point is the US & most western countries try to enforce a "rules based order" on Russia but going back to Iraq the US has often had a foreign policy based on force rather than rules or international law.