They only backed up when the US told the Brits and France they would tank their economies still on US life support.

And, pray, why did the Machado win the hypocrisy prize on Friday? Why are American ships outside the waters of Venezuela?

The British and the French were concerned about the Suez, but Israel was not dependent on the Suez and went to war over their navigation being blockaded by Egypt in the Gulf of Aqaba and the Straits of Tiran, which was a violation by Egypt of maritime law. Aqaba is in the Sinai peninsula which is also bounded by the Suez.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_passage_through_the_Su...

> They only backed up when the US told the Brits and France they would tank their economies still on US life support.

But they did back off. The US was willing to stand up for Egyptian sovereignty even against their own allies. That isn't an example of non-western countries being unable to enact protectionist policies, it's an example of the opposite.

I suppose installing el-Sisi is also an example of protecting Egyptian sovereignty:

https://www.cato.org/commentary/ten-years-after-coup-us-stil...

> My example is about European piracy under the pretense of that foreign ownership supersedes sovereignty.

The British and French did something wrong 70 years ago and the world called them out for it, therefore it's hypocritical for the Dutch to call out a similar wrong thing being done against them now? Nonsense.

[1] https://www.latintimes.com/nicolas-maduro-losing-it-venezuel...

For some reason, over the past few decades the powerful countries from the West employed rhetoric to suggest that their actions are guided by principles and morals. That was most likely a reaction to a huge wave of anti-colonial revolutions and national liberation struggles that tore the Western empires apart. However, USA and Israel have taken off the mask over the past 2 years, and that weasly rhetoric is now over.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Melos#Melian_Dialogue

But talking seriously, the OP didn't say that other countries never do it. Just that the powers have innumerable examples of coups to knock out governments that do this. A lot of them were democratic and popular governments.