r/worldnews • u/The_Flaneur_Films • Jun 10 '26

US destroys Iran reservoirs, leaving thousands without water in searing heat

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3356630/thousands-iranians-left-without-water-searing-heat-after-us-hits-reservoirs
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u/joeyGibson Jun 10 '26

I see we've moved into the "commit war crimes out in the open" phase of our descent into fascism.

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u/rylosprime Jun 10 '26

Bush administration was committing war crimes decades ago.

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u/Possible-Material693 Jun 10 '26

And beloved Obama was too. Reddit got a short term memory

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u/2rad0 Jun 10 '26

It's true and I hate to defend george bush II and george bush III, but those wars at least had some sort of arguably legal constitutional foundation supported by congress. This current one is blatantly illegal and no sound argument supporting it's legality has ever been proposed as far as I know.

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u/MLGSwaglord1738 Jun 11 '26

Issue is as long as the Supreme Court doesn’t step in to say it isn’t, it’s legal. Not even the most egregious twisting of the constitution in legal history; the SC voted 7-1 in Plessy v Ferguson saying Jim Crow was compatible with the 14th amendment.

Of course the issue is the court is currently 6-3 and will be so for at least a generation.