In his news conference Monday, Donald Trump threatened to blow up every bridge and power plant in Iran, action that would be so far-reaching that some experts in military law said it could constitute a war crime.
The issue could turn on whether the power plants were legitimate military targets, whether the attacks were proportional compared with what Iran has done and whether civilian casualties were minimized.
Trump’s threat was so broad it did not seem to account for the harm to civilians, prompting Democrats in Congress, some United Nations officials and scholars in military law to say such strikes would violate international law.
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meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 107 pts · 128d
What do you mean "could be"? It's pretty clear cut and we've been spending the past 4 years condemning russia for terrorizing and attacking civilian infrastructure like that
Exeous@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 128d
Yes! Is war crime! No “could be”
encelado748@feddit.org · 8 pts · 128d
Targeting civilian infrastructure like Russia does is a war crime. Just threatening to do that is not as clear. I think that nobody will doubt that to actually follow through with the threat would be a war crime.
balsoft@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 128d
Plenty of propaganda outlets would cast doubt on it. AP is preemptively doing it right now. If you read the article it is not talking about the threats, it is specifically discussing whether bombing power plants would be a war crime. Shameful
encelado748@feddit.org · 2 pts · 128d
The article above seems to be on the side that to indiscriminately target civilian infrastructure is a war crime. The wording of the article can be confusing for sure.
balsoft@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 128d
It is still presenting it as a point of discussion rather than a foregone conclusion, which it should be.
Asafum@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 128d
"So-called world leaders around the world stated Monday that they would vigorously wag their fingers and sternly say "No! Bad Trump!" If he were to carry out war crimes (again). The administration was in tears laughing when journalists asked if they were concerned about the repercussions for committing war crimes. Steven Miller crawled out from beneath the carpet to say "what are you fucking losers going to do about it?" before leaping across the room to catch a mouse and eat it live."
Today@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 128d
Wish i had more than one ⬆️ for you.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 128d
If I was the next president I'd immediately join ICC agreements. Then I'd demand the past living presidents all be reviewed for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Obama included. We need to clean house to show the world we're done being the evil empire. Trump sucks but every president since FDR has been a worse president.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 19 pts · 128d
Except the US is clearly not done being the evil empire. On either side of the aisle.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 128d
mech@feddit.org · 5 pts · 128d
Join the ICC, let international inspectors take a look at US military bases, re-join the climate accords and all the other international treaties Trump backed out of, and pass a constitutional amendment to ratify all that and another one to reform your election system.
Maybe this will be enough to eventually re-gain the trust of other nations, eventually.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 128d
We have to reform the electoral system so that people vote instead of land or we’ll just end up right back where we are.
slemptastrophe@piefed.social · 30 pts · 128d
Much more accurate headline.
balsoft@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 128d
FTFY
Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online · 20 pts · 128d
So, do americans think this administration (or literally any of the previous ones) will be called to account at the Hauge? Do they know about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act
Do people tell themselves it's okay because these bad people will be punished? So it's okay for the "good guys" to do nothing to interfere?
Yikes.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 128d
Oh no, a law!
Welp, pack it up guys. Our hands are tied by a law, nothing the future President and Congress can do about that.
Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online · 2 pts · 128d
It's been 20+ years but sure
Eta: my point was the US has signaled they dgaf about "war crimes" why do people still act shocked?
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 128d
And now he's threatening to destroy the entire Iranian civilization.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/07/iran-war-trump-deadline.html
SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 128d
US President announcing genocide on Social Media .... What a fucked up Timeline
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 128d
He really is horribly, frighteningly dangerous. First term he had to limit his behaviour to get a 2nd term. This time he's got nothing to lose
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 128d
*is a
Bwaz@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 128d
COULD???????
negativenull@piefed.world · 10 pts · 128d
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social · 15 pts · 128d
I saw this. It's terrifying. I am, for the first time in my life, afraid that someone could actually use a nuke.
negativenull@piefed.world · 8 pts · 128d
The rollercoaster of seeing that tweet, and this image back-to-back: https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009288/art002e009288~large.jpg
☠️
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 128d
God, imagine being one of those astronauts watching it all go down. You’re definitely dead too, just on a separate timeline from the rest of us, whether you for some reason try to get back or not.
BanMe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 128d
Half the people I know, plus several books I've read lately, think that a small nuclear incident is required to get us back on track. We need to see devastation and horror to appreciate peace. Well, shit. Am I rooting for it? Kind of.
electric_nan@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 128d
I will be burning things down.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 128d
I'm not an expert yet I KNOW it's a war crime.
WHEN are we gonna stop him? I vote NOW.
ClownStatue@piefed.social · 6 pts · 128d
What is this “War Crime” thing I keep seeing mentioned. I see so many articles talking about people committing these “crimes,” but I never even see anyone being tried, let alone convicted, of any such thing.
ductTapedWindow@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 128d
It's reddit talk for jerk me off
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 6 pts · 128d
Great! We got him!
Now that experts said he's a war criminal he will be impeached and gone before summer. I'm so glad it's over.
/s
ductTapedWindow@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 128d
We got em!!! We got em on war crimes this time! It's over, woohoo!
Every fucking day