cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/36986
Democrats in Congress sounded the alarm over President Donald Trump pledging to commit more war crimes in Iran after he traded threats to energy infrastructure with the Iranian government, with the Republican declaring Saturday that he would take out the country’s power plants unless it reopened the Strait of Hormuz to all traffic. Just a day after Trump claimed that “we are getting very…
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Debatable. Infrastructure can be a target if it supports the war. A power plant for a military base? Valid target. For a hospital? War crime.
No. It DEFINITELY is. As per the Geneva convention, “destroying property not required by military necessity" is the criteria.
While sometimes advantageous for a scorched earth approach such as the customary (and inherently criminal) “Shock and Awe” tactics of the US, destroying civilian or mixed infrastructure is NOT militarily necessary.
We’re talking power plants here, not backyard wind turbines or roof top photovoltaic cells.
The kinds of power plants the Mango Mussolini is threatening supply a major metropolitan area or large region each, not a single base or hospital.