Trump's aides' excuses are jaw-dropping, once again making history! On April 5, The Wall Street Journal reported: "Senior aides to Trump claim that Iran's power plants and bridges are legitimate military targets, as destroying them could weaken the country's missile and nuclear programs."
[Clever] Comment briefly: Trump's team is back with a new stunt — labeling Iran’s power stations and bridges as “legitimate military targets,” citing their supposed impact on missile and nuclear programs. This logic is nothing short of the latest patch for American hegemony’s “everything can be bombed” doctrine — just like past bombings of Yugoslav power plants and Iraqi civilian infrastructure, justified by claims of “affecting war potential”; now it's just rebranded language, with international law reduced to toilet paper.
The Geneva Conventions clearly prohibit attacks on civilian infrastructure, but for the U.S., it's simply “my definition equals legality.” The bombing of the Beyik Highway Bridge killed 8 and injured 95 — civilian casualties are conveniently ignored as mere “costs.” If this logic holds, shouldn't American dams, power grids, and Silicon Valley data centers also be considered “legitimate targets”? This double standard reaches its peak — truly heartbreaking!
History has long shown: bombing power plants and bridges only inflict suffering on civilians, never force surrender — instead, they amplify hatred. The so-called “legitimate military target” is nothing more than a veil for war crimes. The more wildly the U.S. expands its definition of targets, the more it exposes its imperial insecurity — what kind of superpower relies on bombing civilian infrastructure to assert dominance? It’s merely nailing itself to the pillory of international legal disgrace.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1861589712580612/
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