Fair point.

But our general intent and policy to respect heads of state doesn't philosophically apply to obviously illegit rulers.

Maduro was the worst case of that... his populace clearly and quantifiably rejected him.

Even in PRC and DPRK you can kind of argue that rulers have some degree of consent from the governed in that there's been no obvious attempt to replace them.


That's tinfoil hat stuff that we're not going to discuss here. Drop it.

Hamas is an IR proxy, which exists to leverage the perceived plight of the displaced locals to facilitate Iran's ulterior motives.