Trump threats cause dilemma for US officers: disobey orders or commit war crimes

[BlueWavePsych]

Legal experts say attacking Iran’s infrastructure would constitute a war crime – but would military officers be held responsible?

There is little debate among legal experts that such an attack on the life-supporting infrastructure for 93 million Iranians would constitute a war crime.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr/06/trump-threats-dilemma-for-officers-disobey-orders-or-commit-war-crimes

[GCG]

1. They'll commit war crimes!!!

Much like the US Congress, the US military also lacks the courage to resist Trump!

[displacedvermoter]

2. I am afraid you are right

[RockRaven]

3. They will do the crimes every time. The Dotard's admin has a simple philosophy:

"you can't arrest us all" and the military does too. If the crimes are voluminous enough they know they will all get away with it. Or, at the very least, flooding the zone dilutes the chances of accountability coming for any one criminal. There is safety in numbers.

Look at the boat murders. There was much hue and cry at the blatant illegality of first few. But by now there have been so many, and so many individuals are culpable, -- the whole command structure is tainted through and through , top to bottom -- that prosecution of any one or handful of people is unlikely to impossible.

The same has already happened on Iran. They have bombed so many schools and hospitals and other civilian infrastructure that the bombers (by which I mean decision-makers too not just implementers) are safe from being singled out for consequences.

[slightlv]

6. We got away with so much during Viet Nam, Iraq, and Afghanistan

I don't see many, if any, refusing ANY orders... no matter how illegal they may be. Plus, we know Blackwater (Xe) or whatever its called now is over there doing spec ops, and they have no compunction against murdering anyone and everyone they run into. When a country uses mainly mercenaries to fight its wars, there is no longer a just-war theory, or morals, or ethics involved, IMO.

[NNadir]

4. The International Law Precedents at Nuremberg Establish the Case.

Unfortunately it is difficult to arrest armed perpetrators.

The US is likely to collapse if something isn't done about the pedophile in chief, so we'll see if their will be war crimes trials administered by international courts.

[-misanthroptimist]

5. They fired the commanders in the military who would stop them

War crimes it is.