India, Jan. 7 -- The US' military operation in Venezuela marks a rupture that goes beyond the immediate shock of force or the spectacle of power. By entering Venezuelan territory without international authorisation, seizing a sitting head of state, and transferring him to its own jurisdiction to face domestic criminal charges, Washington has crossed a threshold that the post-1945 international system was expressly designed to prevent. This was not a proxy war, a covert intervention, or even a contested humanitarian operation. It was a direct assertion that military superiority can substitute for international legality, and that sovereign equality, long the bedrock of global order, is conditional when it collides with the interests of a do...