By World BEYOND War, December 19, 2025

Here is a model resolution that can be modified and submitted to your local government or other institution, which you can urge to pass it:

More on resolutions and how to pass them is here.

In Opposition to President Donald Trump’s Threats and Acts of War Against Venezuela

Whereas the United Nations Charter makes it a crime to threaten war and a crime to wage war except in defense or by UN authorization, neither of which is the case here, and neither of which has even been alleged here;

Whereas the alleged shortcomings of a government provide no legal basis for a foreign government to attempt to overthrow it;

Whereas the illegal drug trade, even where real, provides no legal basis for waging war or committing murder;

Whereas President Donald Trump’s claims about the illegal drug trade regarding both Venezuela and approximately 100 people thus far killed in boats with U.S. missiles from drones are without evidence and widely considered not even plausible;

Whereas seizing a nation’s oil provides no legal basis for waging war or committing murder;

Whereas sanctions illegally imposed on Venezuela by the United States, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, have now been exacerbated by acts of war including the declaration of a no-fly zone and of a naval blockade;

Whereas even United States Army Judge Advocates General have denounced Trump’s actions as “patently illegal”;

Whereas 63 percent of people in the United States, a purportedly representative democracy, in the most recent poll oppose military action in Venezuela;

Whereas wars normalize killing, degrade our culture, proliferate weaponry, fuel arms races, devastate the natural environment, cost a financial fortune desperately needed for human and environmental crises, shred the rule of law, spread bigotry and xenophobia, and increase terrorism;

Whereas we must reject Trump’s recent announcement of support for an imperialistic corollary of the Monroe Doctrine;

Whereas United States Senators and members of the House of Representatives have repeatedly attempted to pass resolutions to prevent war on Venezuela and the murders of boaters in the Caribbean, and thus far failed narrowly;

(This clause is only for use in the United States) Whereas U.S. cities and towns routinely and properly send petitions to Congress for all kinds of requests as allowed under Clause 3, Rule XII, Section 819, of the Rules of the House of Representatives, and the same is established in the Jefferson Manual, the rule book for the House originally written by Charlottesville’s Thomas Jefferson for the Senate;

Therefore, be it resolved that __________ urges its Congressional delegation in Washington and the President of the United States (or any national government or the United Nations, as appropriate) to immediately cease all threat and engagement in war or hostilities directed at Venezuela, return to Virginia the ships deployed to the southern Caribbean, end the missile strikes on boats, lift the sanctions devastating the Venezuelan people, foreswear the Monroe Doctrine, and commit to abiding by the rule of law in foreign relations, drug policy, and all matters whatsoever.

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