‘You’ll be living in hell’: Is Trump threatening war crimes?
It’s been a war of shifting deadlines for President Trump. And, his latest one expired this morning.
US President Donald Trump threatened if Iran failed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the US would strike the country’s bridges and power plants in what he called “Energy Plants Day and Bridges Day”.
He warned there would be “nothing like” the attack he would unleash if Tehran ignored his ultimatum.
But indiscriminately targeting infrastructure that civilians rely on to survive could amount to war crimes.
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Today, Rachel VanLandingham – a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and former military lawyer – discusses whether the US can lawfully target civilian infrastructure, and what it would mean for international law if it did.
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Guest: National security law expert and former active duty judge advocate in the US Air Force, Rachel VanLandingham
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