Trump stood before the General Assembly and, in effect, shredded the Charter into pieces. Article 2(4) prohibits both the threat and the use of force.
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Trump stood before the General Assembly and, in effect, shredded the Charter into pieces. Article 2(4) prohibits both the threat and the use of force. From the rostrum, he delivered both, and called the result peace.
Iran: He told the Assembly that he faced a choice between a deal and annihilating Iran, a UN member-state, leaving it “no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness.” In its 1996 Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion, the ICJ held that a declared readiness to use force, where the contemplated use of force would itself be unlawful, constitutes a threat prohibited by Article 2(4).
He then named his own date for peace: a deal “right after the election.” That single sentence gives away the case. Article 51, even assuming it applies, which it does not, permits force only for as long as necessary to repel an armed attack. That licence expires when the necessity expires. A president who can announce the month in which he intends to stop bombing has admitted that the bombing serves the calendar of his midterms.
Every US soldier killed between now and November will have died for the political convenience of a Republican vote. He launched this war with Israel on February 28. The war was stained by war crimes. The Islamabad Memorandum in June was supposed to end it. He chose to resume it anyway.
Venezuela: He offered the Venezuela operation as proof that no threat will be allowed to gain a foothold in the hemisphere. American forces bombed Caracas and abducted a sitting head of state, now jailed in Brooklyn awaiting trial. UN experts called the operation a grave, manifest and deliberate violation of international law. The Secretary-General said the rules of international law had not been respected.
The immunity of a sitting head of state recognized by the ICJ in Arrest Warrant (2002) survives a federal indictment. No prosecutor's paperwork converts an abduction into an arrest.
Cuba: He declared that Cuba's government “will fall” and that Washington seeks fundamental change there. The Cuban delegation walked out. The blockade has cut the island off from Venezuelan oil. Starving a population until its government collapses is the kind of coercive intervention prohibited by the principle of non-intervention affirmed in Nicaragua (1986) and General Assembly Resolution 2625.
Doctrine: He pledged to keep reasserting “American military power, where necessary in our region and around the world,” and announced two major bases in Greenland after months of threatening to take the island by force. He read his repudiation of Article 2(4) aloud at the Charter's own headquarters, before the states it was written to protect.
The record, checked.
Gaza: He claimed, “we ended the war in Gaza, saving untold thousands of lives.” Gaza's Health Ministry counted 1,394 Palestinians killed since that ceasefire as of September 21.
Munitions: He called reports of depleted American stocks untrue. His own Pentagon Inspector General told Congress a week earlier that the war had caused strategic inventory shortfalls, with $22.3 billion in munitions expended in the first four months.
Ukraine: He promised the war would end sooner than people expected. He campaigned on ending it within 24 hours. Twenty months into his term, it continues.
The bomb: He vowed Iran would never have a nuclear weapon. His own intelligence chief told lawmakers that Iran was not building one.
The Charter's opening line commits its members to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.”
He came to that hall and threatened to foreclose a member state's future for "generations".
posted by Satish Sharma at
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