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I quess water infrastructure is on the table now. Good job, America.

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!

Oh look: more war crimes.

Why wouldn't other countries just not sanction us?

seriously this and the killing random people in fishing boats with no due process in international waters are war crimes.

If China, Russia, EU and everyone else said nah fuck you we won't buy any of your shit or sell you any of our shit would that not fix the problem in like, one months time?

Seriously why isn't this happening?? Couldn't the ICC make its members do something like this? Or is that not how that works?

I'm just trying to understand. There must be something the world can do that doesn't involve war why don't they do that?

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.

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.

So more war crimes. Yay. Proud to be an American were at least I know I’m shackled to a government run by pedophiles, corporations, and foreign interests.

Let’s make everyone in the U.S. vote and see what happens. I feel like at least once before the great experiment totally implodes we should just try that once since we are so fucking free and are the best fucking democracy ever……

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

Meanwhile, the rest of the world thinks that it's okay to remain entirely silent when the US breaches the Geneva Convention.

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.

fresh war crimes. The US needs to sign onto the ICC so our leaders can go explain themselves in court.

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.

Where is the UN ?

I wonder if the Israelis were somehow involved in shooting down the chopper. The crazy fucks want the damn war to rage on so they can steal more land from Lebanon and the West Bank.

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.

"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!"