[epolanski]

You can easily call out way more recent stuff such as what's happening in central America right now with Colombia and Venezuela.

Sinking half a dozen ships in international waters is a crime.

Sanity would ask for intercepting those boats in your waters, and that's it, controlling what's in them, who are these people and send them in front of a court if they breached your law, on your soil (or waters).

Yet we are at the point nobody raises the voice where sinking civilian ships on the basis it's drug smugglers (without providing a proof, let alone the fact that even if it was true it's still insane) has any leftover of decency or justice.

Or calling for the annexation of Greenland and Panama by any means.

Or bombing Iran on the basis that it's developing nuclear weapons on behalf of the Israeli government (which is an act of war if Iran could wage it, the US does not get to decide who can have a nuclear weapon and who does not).

The list of breaches in decency or law is basically infinite.

[wrs]

You're not wrong, but I just wanted to point out that this level of arbitrary executive behavior and blatant massive government corruption is pretty new to us (the many millions of decent US citizens who are appalled at it), and we're still trying to figure out what the heck we can do about it. So at least for now I really hope it's valid to ascribe this just to the current administration, not assume the US will stay like this.

[torstenvl]

> Sinking half a dozen ships in international waters is a crime.

Citation needed.

[rq1]

As much as I agree with you. Iran is signatory of the NPT with all its consequences.

Instead of letting more countries develop these weapons, we should work on denuclearizing all countries, starting with the US and Russia and their insane arsenals! And maybe build a unified international legal framework for civilian nuclear developments and applications from energy to medical outside of the "security council's" ferule!

A nuclear war cannot be won, thus never fought!

[epolanski]

There's a very precise protocol when a signatory of the NPT is suspected of breaching it: first it has to go through the IAEA which has to be able to inspect whatever site, then it gets escalated to the UN, then a decision is taken, at the UN level on the matter.

Not unilaterally by Israel calling the world's superpower for help.

Your logic is as sound as "since my neighbor makes something illegal at home, I'm gonna shoot him and then call my buddy sheriff for help". It is obviously illegal.

[rq1]

Well I never advocated the latter, so please. And my logic is very sound, better than yours. :)

I was replying to "the US does not get to decide who can have a nuclear weapon and who does not". As much as I agree with that... my previous comment.

We're not talking about a nuclear program.