RealJournalism20h ago
Trump issues expletive-laden threat against #Iran as details of U.S. aviator's rescue emerge https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/trump-issues-expletive-laden-threat-against-iran-as-details-of-u-s-aviators-rescue-emerge
Trump issues expletive-laden threat against Iran as details of U.S. aviator's rescue emerge

President Trump on Sunday made new, expletive-laden threats to escalate strikes on Iran if it does not open the Strait of Hormuz by his deadline, following the rescue of a U.S. aviator who was shot down in Iran.

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Show threadAndreas K20h ago

@RealJournalism Please note, #Trump did not only announce that he plans to commit war crimes; strictly speaking, these kinds of threats are already a war crime.

And I know American exceptionalism, yada yada, the USA does not recognize war crimes committed by Americans.

Cough, actually that arms universal jurisdiction on war crimes if the home country of the war criminal refuses to prosecute.

So for the time, the Americans can skate on; nobody wants to piss off the USA today. In a decade?

Show threadMr. Bob20h ago
@yacc143 @RealJournalism I don't want to generalize an entire country but the americans threatened to invade hague if convicted of war crimes.. no one is dealing with reasonable or sane people in that country's administration, especially when it leans right
Show threadRev Nathan Ⓥ↔️🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱18h ago
@azterlights @yacc143 @RealJournalism Yes, this was a law concocted during the Bush 2 regime because he obviously took us into war for no reason and committed many war crimes and how dare anyone hold him and his cronies accountable?
Show threadAndreas K15h ago

@revndm @azterlights @RealJournalism You are misunderstanding something here. The Rome Statute is irrelevant. It's just the cherry on the cake.

War crimes are generally a crime in almost any country.

War crimes are also, in theory (not every country has legislated it yet, but they can), crimes with universal jurisdiction. If the home country of the criminal does not prosecute them, any other country is legally entitled to do so.

Today it's generally selectively enforced for a number of

Show threadRev Nathan Ⓥ↔️🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱15h ago
@yacc143 @azterlights @RealJournalism I’m not talking about the Rome statute, to which the US is not a signatory, but the American Service-Members’ Protection Act (ASPA) which includes a stupid paragraph about the US being able to use whatever means to “liberate” US officials from the ICC. Which IMO is worse than selective enforcement. The US invading the Netherlands? Formerly unthinkable. Today, not really 😖
Show threadAndreas K
@revndm @azterlights @RealJournalism It's not the ICC that will lock them up.
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