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War crime
And we add it to the pile…
Another day another war crime from this piece of shit country…
What is this from?
No idea lol I just googled “gigantic pile of papers image”
Crime against humanity
You are right. It is more adequate term
Not a single mention of that in the article.
Attacking a reservoir is illegal (war crime) as it is a piece of civilian infrastructure. All attacks on civilian infrastructure are crimes of war and can be punished under the Geneva Conventions.
Deliberately starving a civilian population by destroying or blocking access to food, water, and other survival necessities is a war crime. This includes interfering with humanitarian relief supplies. A 2019 amendment to the Rome Statute extended this prohibition to non-international armed conflicts, closing a significant gap in the law.
Unless they can prove that the reservoir was being used as part of the military or military support operations,it’s off limits.
Since the usa was in negociations and even said that it was a retaliation against the shooting for the helicopter. The principle of necessity and proportionality is not there.
I understand that. I’m making a statement that there were no mentions of war crimes. Let’s do another round?
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So you need a news reporter to declare its a war crime before you will use your own brain and understand the definitions of war crimes, is that whats going on here?
Yes. For the dummies, you do. What is hard to understand about this? Not everybody is well informed or educated enough to know what is and is not a war crime.
I quess water infrastructure is on the table now. Good job, America.
Iran will offcourse retaliate by hitting the water infrastructure in the Gulf States, causing massive issues in the Arab world.
This is Russia level incompetence.
Worse than russia
Oh but that would be “terrorism”.
This is Russia level incompetence.
well when your nation becomes a vassal state to Russia, that is to be expected.
Russia’s economy is smaller than California’s, don’t be silly.
have you been paying attention recently?
If we’ve been paying attention, then the US is a vassal state of Israel and likes to support authoritarians globally (like Russia).
Russia doesn’t need to buy a country.
They need to buy exactly 1 person.
The guy is clearly insane and out of control. This is squarely on the heads of JD Vance and Marco Rubio for not invoking the 25th amendment. This was obviously not a military target and was designed to cause mass civilian casualties and death.
OH HELL NO! Not in our name!
As a Native American I regret to inform you that
This was obviously not a military target and was designed to cause mass civilian casualties and death.
is entirely typical of the US government.
Totally get it and totally agree.
Custer, in his arrogance, ignorance and obstinance got what he deserved at Little Bighorn.
No one can deny that we stole this land from the native Americans. It wasn’t me or my ancestors, but here were are.
I hope we can make the most of it with the time we have left here together.
Respect!
It’s kind of the definition of what the US does and has done effectively since the day after independence.
Yep. We need a pitchfork party or we need to remove most of the dems from the democratic party. And all zionists need to be removed from every role of influence in our society. Then we need to gut the GOP like a fish.
If any of that is not possible we need accelerationism and then to rebuild until it is.
What world are you living in that you think the 25th amendment would work right now? Vance and Rubio are pieces of shit. But why would they throw away their lifelong careers of being pieces of fucking shit for something that would get them ostracized from their tribe, and leave the other side also hating them?
The world i live in is the one that warns Vance and Rubio that they will lose their jobs if they don’t listen to the people.
Trump has left such a bad taste in everyone’s mouth that they would do well to heed the warning that they will be out of power in congress for 40+ years (like 1950’s - 1990’s) and they will lose the Whitehouse for the next 12-16 years, if they don’t change their ways.
This Reagan Republican is voting straight blue this time around. This wackjob has to be stopped. Period. Full stop.
These democrats are not going to stop the republicans from fixing elections, let alone be popular enough to dominate politics for decades, get real.
Sorry, full on all of your names, just like all the Germans that allowed the Nazis to do what they did, or any of the other examples. Unlike other countries y’all can actual buy weapons too, so it’s even worse - at least the Russians can’t just go and buy a gun around the block.
If you count all the war crimes committed by US soldiers, regardless of who was president, you will come to the conclusion that the US is an imperial, colonial, exploitative power.
Previously, they hid behind diplomacy, the UN, “freedom”, “democracy”. Donald Trump has portrayed the US as it has been all these years after the Second World War, selfish, greedy, without a shred of empathy.
That is why some Americans cannot stand Trump because he exposes them for what they are.
This isn’t even unusual, I’m surprised they didn’t do it sooner.
The USA is hopeful that there will be a civilian uprising, and will do anything in its power to make life in Iran as miserable as possible. Even as they complain about Iran’s killing of civilians, they will murder those same civilians.
Recall that over 500K Iraqis died to topple Hussein for the crime of killing 20K Iraqis.
The deaths for the Iraq war number far closer to a million.
Oh look: more war crimes.
My news didn’t tell me this. Total dick move, if Iran hit an aquifer of an allied country our media would cry foul. Fucking cunts.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world thinks that it’s okay to remain entirely silent when the US breaches the Geneva Convention.
Most countries remain silent but are very much against the US.
The thing is, most countries are digitally dependent on the US, like on Microsoft. The vast majority of enterprises and governments use stuff like Windows and Microsoft Teams and switching to FOSS alternatives can take years. So the fear is that countries criticize Trump and the US too harshly, that Trump could just cut them off, and governments and enterprises would have their digital infrastructure bricked.
The targets that were hit are not being reported in the US at all as far as I can tell.
Just “strikes in Southern Iran”.
I don’t understand how people can follow a command like this and then go home and sleep at night.
This is literally what the US has been doing for 70 years.
Doesn’t change the question.
The answer is propaganda.
The answer is most normal people cannot. There are sociopaths that can and they are concentrated in our military of murderers.
People with thoughtful morals don’t join the military. Sociopaths, moral LARPers, and desperate people do.
Well as a subordinate who is given illegal orders they’re kind of fucked there’s no good choice so that’s why it was so important for commanders to only issue legal orders. So they don’t put their men in a bad legal situation.
If a solider doesn’t follow the command they’re given probably going to be found guilty of insubordination, regardless of whether it is illegal or not. They’ll probably be called a criminal, lose all the benefits that come from service, or possibly be executed according to this administration.
If a soldier follows illegal orders like these then they can be charged as war criminals and executed.
The ONLY way to be able to refuse illegal orders is to have an enormous amount of support from other soldiers and the judge advocate General’s office. Which are resources your average soldier doesn’t have. Yes the Uniform Code of Military Justice says following illegal orders is illegal but the reality is very different.
Humanitarian law is also designed to protect civilian objects, including those indispensable to the survival of the civilian population. Article 29 of the Convention on the law relating to the non-navigational uses of international watercourses [available on http://www.un.org/], adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1997, stipulates:
“International watercourses and related installations, facilities and other works shall enjoy the protection accorded by the principles and rules of international law applicable in international and non-international armed conflict and shall not be used in violation of those principles and rules”.
General protection under the law applicable to armed conflicts extends to more than international watercourses, and the four main prohibitions laid down in that law are worth noting:
the ban on employing poison or poisonous weapons; the ban on destroying, confiscating or expropriating enemy property; the ban on destroying objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population; the ban on attacking works or installations containing dangerous forces.
The four prohibitions, to which should be added the provisions on environmental protection, are expressly mentioned in the instruments relating to international armed conflicts, and the last two are also laid down in the law applicable to non-international armed conflicts. Starvation as a method of warfare is explicitly prohibited regardless of the nature of the conflict, and the concept of objects essential for the survival of the civilian population includes drinking-water installations and supplies and irrigation works. Immunity for indispensable objects is waived only when these are used solely for the armed forces or in direct support of military action. Even then, the adversaries must refrain from any action which could reduce the population to starvation or deprive it of essential water.
https://casebook.icrc.org/case-study/water-and-armed-conflicts
US just made it Total War, IRGC are hardcore fundamentalists, they’re not above poisoning an entire states water supply and you just gave them casus belli.
Good work Orange Man.
Uh, in case you weren’t aware, they are poisoning all of our water here in the US as well.
Israel and the US had already struck schools, hospitals, bridges, desalination plants and other civilian infrastructure. The “hardcore fundamentalists” of Iran have shown massive restraint considering what had already been done to them before the supposed ceasefire. They have more respect for the civilian life of their enemies than the US ever has in it’s history.
Okay, those laws of war run on “as long as you don’t do it, I won’t either”. America’s allies in the region also need water, what if Iran strikes at their reservoirs in retaliation? Trump may have escalated the war into terrifying new territory.
This. People forget that “war crimes” have more to do with escalation of collateral damage than anything else.
“Hey! You possibly shot down a military helicopter from us while it was performing illegal operations within your territory! That goes too far, fuck the Geneva convention, you will pay!”
Aka, more war crimes committed by the regime in charge of the USA.
