tbh I’m not sure why any “war” is legal in the first place. Seems like a failing.
I hate that I assumed they are blaming Iran at first.
… but we’ll still allow VW to make guns for war criminals.
This time, the Spanish president’s “no to war” message is backed by more EU countries.
Still letting them use bases on German territory. That makes them complicit.
Ok? We’re just stating the obvious that I already knew a month ago when this shit first started. Thanks I guess for having eyes and ears that work?
You aren’t the President of Germany
The fact that statements on international law are made by heads of state demonstrates that it is actually politics, not law.
I mean it’s good for them to say it but I have my doubts appealing to the letter of the law will work on this bunch, hopefully they’re saying it for the others in the room.
hopefully they’re saying it for the
othersadults in the roomFTFY
Well said.
Yes, we know. Now will someone please do something about it.
Of course they did, they are Iran, THE violator of every law. Where are we with Epstein files and Pedo-in-chief?
Throw it on the pile, which is nearly space elevator in height at this point
Seriously. Zero consequences for Trump no matter what laws are broken. Ever.
We haven’t had international law for some time now. Russia, China, US, Israel and a few others don’t even have domestic law.
Some see today’s headlines as global chaos. I see this as the calm before the storm.
Unfortunately just a figurehead and their actual leader is all about staying on usa good side
The German president holds a largely ceremonial role that allows more freedom for criticism compared with other politicians in the nation. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has also raised concerns about the war but emphasized maintaining relations with the U.S.
Merz is a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
But Steinmeier, a member of the center-left Social Democratic Party, called the war a “politically disastrous mistake” that had irrevocably harmed transatlantic relations.
Merz later said he supported Iranian regime change at the hands of the U.S. and Israel.
Following a meeting with the German chancellor at the White House last week, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that Germany has “been great” and levied criticism toward other European allies, including the U.K. and Spain.
I suspect this is the reason why presidents in Europe (Italy, Germany, Ireland etc.) sometimes (rarely) call out this shit as morally reprehensible or illegal. Because they’re just figureheads for the government and don’t actually do anything about it. Meanwhile the PMs (which have actual executive power) actively collaborate with US/Israel and continue imperialism as normal.
Presidents are like the popes of liberal democracies: lots of fancy words to keep the masses placated, zero possibility of change.
People have been called antisemitic for less
The president of Germany? Anti-semitic?
We’ve come full circle!
It’s hard to imagine
81 years ago it wasn’t that hard to imagine
You don’t even need to go back 81 years. The post-war Germans were also horrifyingly antisemitic for decades. It wasn’t until the late stages of the Cold War that the German Christian Democrats felt the need to clean up their own rotten reputation and rebrand as zealously pro-Zionist. Curiously enough, this was just about the same time anti-Muslim bigotry was coming into vogue, and anti-semitism accusations could be leveraged to denounce Middle Eastern government leaders sitting on large oil reserves.
Just a side note, the German Zionism is deeply antisemitic, as it forbids to draw a line between the state of Israel and Jews as a whole, implicitly suggesting that all Jews were accountable for the crimes of the state.
Please, Germany, arrest the perpetrators then.
Don’t arrest them… Make them suffer slowly.
If international law was ever enforced I’m sure they’d be very concerned.
