Adam Jacobs 🇺🇦Mar 6

I don't think the UK media have made nearly enough noise about the US Navy sinking an *unarmed* Iranian warship and then, in clear violation of the Geneva Conventions, leaving them to drown.

This is a heinous war crime which the media would be rightly up in arms about if any country that wasn't nominally an "ally" had done it.

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/gcii-1949/article-18/commentary/2017

#IRISDena #IranWar #WarCrimes #GenevaConventions

Show threadMartin SchlegelMar 6
@statsguy I want media to focus more on the "leaving them to drown" and on the illegallity of the war itself. When you are in a war, you can sink enemy warships unarmed or not and you don't even need to ask wether they're armed. It is a ship build to fire at enemies. But even in war you very explicitly can't let the sailors just drown.
Show threadclarkiestarMar 6
@martinschlegel @statsguy agreed. And this isn’t even officially a war, as it hasn’t been approved by congress or the UN. Totally illegal
Show threadWesDym
@clarkiestar Congress did approve it, just today. Congress is currently run by the president's party, who pretty much give him whatever he wants. I don't know if it's because they're evil, stupid, or cowards, but I also don't care any more. These people need to be sent to the Hague at this point.
Mar 7 at 7:17amWeb
Show threadclarkiestarMar 7
@wesdym thank you for the update. I didn’t realise that congress had since had a vote on it