I’ll preface this by saying I’m an American who hates Trump, his regime, and everything they stand for.
Every president has done some version of Venezuela and they always justify it with some Bs so I got to thinking what would I do in a situation where I was president and my intelligence community showed me proof that some dictator in a country that doesn’t really like us was creating nukes. Assuming you have all the correct information and it’s 100% true of course.
You can go around and around saying you need more info and all that. Let’s just assume they are building nukes and you know they will use it as leverage to harm your people economically or militarily
I mean, Trump barely even bothered to justify what they did in Venezuela. It’s pretty much completely naked imperialism.
The “they have nukes and are going to leverage them against us in some way” thing sounds more like the 2003-era justifications where they actually put some effort into it.
And what does “leverage against us” mean? If it just means that they use it to defy my country’s imperial ambitions, what I should do about that is to go fuck myself. But of course, someone who would actually go fuck themselves would never become their country’s president.