This was written by Carrick Ryan and perfectly highlights the hypocrisy of this administration and its supporters:
'Today, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood before the world's media and made the following statement about Iran:
“This is an international waterway, No country can control them. There is no international law that allows you to say, I’m going to put mines in an international body of water, and I’m going to blow up ships that don’t listen to us and try to go through.”
“We cannot live in a world where a rogue state like this Iranian regime is allowed to claim, as a new normal, control over an international shipping lane,”
I agree with him.
Since September last year, the US military has conducted 47 strikes on civilians marine vessels travelling in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, leading to over 190 deaths.
No criminal trials, no evidence provided to the public to justify the violence, merely an arbitrary declaration of terrorism with no transparency or accountability for who they have summarily executed.
The USA then sent its military into Caracas, killing more than 80 people, to abduct the President of Venezuela and replace him with a compliant proxy.
It then commenced a military campaign against Iran that has already killed thousands, without even attempting to conduct themselves within the parameters of international law. The UN Security Council was not consulted, and no evidence has been provided to support its flimsy attempts of retrospective justification.
The US President has made genuine threats to invade Greenland, Panama, and Cuba, without ever once bothering to even pretend to discuss a legal justification for the hostility.
The erosion of the concept of international law as a guardrail against geopolitical anarchy has led us to a dangerous place. But few nations have contributed more to that erosion than the USA, and no president has expedited its demise faster than Donald Trump.
This isn't just hypocrisy, it's insulting, performative, dishonest, and shameless.'
I saw video footage of one of the strikes on a fishing boat...the one where they struck a second time to kill the survivors clinging to the floating wreckage...and I almost threw up. I just can't bear the cruelty, nevermind the flagrant hypocrisy.
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to believe that this is US being the aggressors.
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