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Would you kill baby Hitler knowing what he becomes? Recently, the Trump administration committed two acts that have put me into a moral conundrum;  The forced removal of Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores from Venezuela. The assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran, by a joint Israeli-US air strike. Neither Maduro nor Khamenei are 'good' people. In fact, they are the opposite; their policies and actions have directly caused irreparable harm to both their citizens, the countries around them, and in Khamenei's case, to the world beyond its borders (i.e. funding Hezbollah and Hamas, supporting the oppressive Assad regime, providing military support to Russia's invasion of Ukraine). Yet, despite this I am deeply troubled by the fact that in both cases, the US didn't bother to follow any rules or norms. The very unilateral nature of the decisions and actions...seemingly justified only by power (and the whims of a President). So today, I decided to delve a li...