Donald Trump’s threats to carry out mass bombing of civilian infrastructure in Iran present US military officers with a dilemma: disobey orders or help commit war crimes.
It is an urgent matter for the US chain of command. In an expletive-laden threat, Trump set a Tuesday 8pm Washington time deadline for the Iranian government to open the strait of Hormuz or face “Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one”.
There is little debate among legal experts that such an attack on the life-supporting infrastructure for 93 million Iranians would constitute a war crime.
“Such rhetorical statements – if followed through – would amount to the most serious war crimes – and thus the president’s statements place service members in a profoundly challenging situation,” two former judge advocate general (JAG) officers, Margaret Donovan and Rachel VanLandingham wrote on the website Just Security on Monday.
“As former uniformed military lawyers who advised targeting operations, we know the president’s words run counter to decades of legal training of military personnel and risk placing our warfighters on a path of no return.”
It’s absolutely Imperative that in the new world Order the UN has to be a stronger (best would be THE strongest) global Military Power.
We have to figure out how something Like this rogue stateship of the Military hegemon of the world can be stopped. Otherwise Things gonna repeat themselves.
I think they will definitely stop when their insolvency catches up to them and they can’t pay anyone to wage the war or make the war machines.
The US is already being effectively retaliated against economically, it is just not abrupt and flashy. As the USA’s global financial power continues to wane, so does their global hegemony. I shudder to think what will rise in its place, but it will have a hard time being worse.
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