Nika Kovacs
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Podcast Appearances
We saw them drop 2,000 pound bombs on apartment blocks to kill one terrorist and God knows how many other people got killed.
We saw refugee camps bombed.
And basically we saw the laws of war tossed out the window.
We saw a serial commission of war crimes by the IDF in Gaza.
And if you pointed that out, you got attacked or called names or what have you.
But that's what happened.
And what's worrying me is that the United States military, which has always held itself to β tried, I'm not saying perfectly, but tried to abide by standards β
At first, you saw a targeting error.
I would like to believe that, and I do believe, that that Iranian girls' school that got bombed, where over 100 children were killed, that was a targeting mistake.
But when Donald Trump goes out,
and threatens to blow up desalination plants and threatens to blow up electricity generation, he is threatening to commit war crimes.
The same thing that if Vladimir Putin does in Ukraine, we're all appalled and up in arms about it.
The same thing that the IDF has been doing in Lebanon and in Gaza.
And if β we are now in a world in which this is what it's like when nobody plays by the β if you want to know why there are laws of war, this is why.
Because it becomes a race to the bottom.
Because everybody starts committing war crimes.
Everybody starts targeting civilian targets.
Everybody starts targeting infrastructure that will have an economic impact and a human impact.
When Trump says those things, we shouldn't shrug it off.