New Delhi, Jan. 5 -- Former senior diplomat Manjeev Singh Puri on Monday voiced concern over the US strikes on Venezuela, cautioning that such actions raise fundamental questions about the present global order and the credibility of multilateral institutions.

Explaining the broader implications, Puri said, "The world is a power game, and the global order that we talk about, the multilateralism, the United Nations, is all fundamentally predicated on basically the US being the guarantor of this framework and the P5 standing behind it."

He linked recent developments to the wider structure of international governance.

Placing the situation in historical perspective, he noted that Washington has been involved in similar actions in the past....