IntroductionBombardment (or other military invasion) of a country that has not invaded nor threatened to invade the attacking country(s) is "aggression" under international law, and is the chief crime that the Nazis were hanged for at Nuremberg after World War II.
The US and its allies have routinely committed aggression, in places such as Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen.
A particular instance of it, to be discussed here, could be especially prosecutable, because the alleged 'cause' for the invasion could turn out to have been a provable lie, an intentional fabrication which had been concocted by the perpetrators so as to 'justify' their invasion. This particular instance was the US-and-allied bombing of Syria, by over a hundred missiles, on April 14th.
The concept here is
"War of Aggression" in Wikipedia, whose article makes clear that certain types of invasions, such as in boundary-dispute cases, do not constitute a war-crime. That article cites a statement from the Nuremberg Tribunal: "To initiate a war of aggression ... is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." Lying about the cause for invading is almost invariably an important part of that "accumulated evil." Hitler was infamous for doing it. Did the US do this on April 14th?
That Wikipedia article refers to the International Criminal Court (ICC) as the standing body that possesses the authority to judge such cases. However, the US Government has refused to accept that Court's authority, and prefers instead to be forced to a military surrender as the earlier fascist powers were, before it will yield to any such court's authority. They know that that won't happen, so are brazen in what they now are doing. The US Government rejects international law (except as applied to other countries - especially ones that the US aristocracy wants to conquer, such as Syria, Russia, Iran, and China). Because the US Government has not surrendered, as the earlier Axis powers did in WW II (when the US was a democracy, instead of
a dictatorship as it now is), it maintains its freedom to do what the Germans and the Japanese and the Italians did in WW II - to do such things: aggressions. Like the earlier fascists, the US and allied aristocracies invade and expect to win and thus
to possess immunity from prosecution for their crimes. Of course, thus far, they have succeeded, even after the blatant lying that had 'justified' the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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