• Random Dent@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Fun fact! In 2002 the US passed a law allowing themselves to invade the Hague in case any high-ranking US officials ended up on trial there.

    Which I’m sure they passed in the year between 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq just by coincidence, and they weren’t expecting any shady shit to go down at all.

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      1 year ago

      How would that work? Wouldn’t that be an act of war unprovoked aggression per the UN charter?

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        1 year ago

        No no, don’t you know that we don’t do “war” any more? We do “operations” now. War is totally different. Then we have to obey Geneva conventions and all sorts of other hairy stuff. Our politicians have decided as long as we don’t call it “war” then we’re fine.

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        Yeah, it would be.

        It’s geopolitical dick wagging, not a law that was actually needed or does anything.