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Reminder to the military: you are not required to follow illegal orders. In fact, you are duty-bound to disobey them
I'm quite positive, whether he invades a sovereign nation or not, in some time -- be it five years, ten, or more -- we'll have our own version of the Nuremberg trials. Whoever is still alive that perpetrated or participated in this rape of democracy will be held accountable, someday, because all dictatorships fall.
The only question is how many people have to suffer before then.
I want to see leavitt do the march to prison. She is the present day Otto.
I hope that you’re right, but it does need to be pointed out that Nazi Germany didn’t have thousands of strategic nukes
It took a whole world war and everyone bagging on Germany/Japan for something like that to happen.
In order for history to repeat, we'd need to have everyone in the world team up against the US.
Not really, just for someone who comes after him to hold him and his cronies accountable. And there will be someone after him, sooner or later, that will. It might not be his immediate successor, or his successor's successor. But people aren't going to forget about this.
An invasion of Greenland, or Canada, wouldn't necessarily be unlawful.
Remember 9/11? Remember George Bush asking Congress to approve his use of military force to hunt down the suspects?
Well that Authorization for the Use of Military Force, unlike any prior which had clearly defined limitations, was simply against "terror" and set to expire "never."
One member of Congress refused to vote for this, precisely because she understood that Congress was effectively forever giving up its ability to determine when and how the President was allowed to deploy the military. She got death threats. She was right.
All Trump has to do is "find" a terrorist threat in a country, and he's allowed to send US troops there. Remember how he recently decided that fentanyl is a weapon of mass destruction? Yeah.
He’s already trying with the Mexican gang in Canada. Congress are well aware of this strategy and it has been a talking point one the floor. It’s actually been said that US is more a threat to Canada not the other way around. In which more fentanyl and illegal immigrants pass the border from the US to Canada. I mean he has that angle in which he can complain about the Mexican gang but then he has to also admit he is also responsible for putting them in Canada. Cuz the US is the only path to Canada from Mexico.
You're thinking if us laws, but we're talking about international law
Lol, that was funny. The powerful in the US don't even care about domestic law, let alone international law, which has even less of an enforcement mechanism without the risk of starting an international conflict.
It's the same reason why Netanyahu and Putin haven't been arrested even though they have warrants out for their arrest by the ICJ.
The US deliberately does not subject itself to international laws, because it breaks them routinely. It is a rogue state in that regard, and it did not start with Trump or even Bush.
The US already attacked Canada using one of its propaganda tools: Facebook. This is cyberwarfare.
Facebook bombarded Canadian audience with right wing propaganda during the election.
https://themercury.com/news/national/canadas-election-offers-fodder-for-us-right-wing-influencers/article_f1adcc7c-4c18-569a-b875-01c222cc406a.html
Some have tried to argue that it's actually facebook trying to get revenge for Canadian courts eliminating the cbc from social media feeds. Does that make any sense? They don't care if canada doesn't get news. They want that since they were curating those news feeds with stilted inflammatory content like many right wingers wanted in the first place.