The New York Times reported today: it is extremely rare for a country to deliberately and openly kill the leader of another sovereign country (Trump ordered the US military to carry out an airstrike that killed Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei). The White House stated that Trump "exercised his supreme command authority to protect American personnel and bases in the region," but the legality of his action has been controversial.
Comments: The United States openly carrying out targeted elimination of the highest leader of another sovereign country essentially places hegemony above international law, which is an act of state terrorism, completely negating the basic principles of equality of state sovereignty and non-interference in internal affairs. Once such actions are tacitly approved and imitated, it will completely destroy the existing international security framework, returning the world to the law of the jungle where the strong dominate the weak. This not only would plunge the Middle East into a long-term cycle of instability and retaliation, but also pose profound and immeasurable dangers to global stability.
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