Operation Epstein Fury continues apace, achieving its instigator's aim of monopolizing the news cycle with something - anything! - other than discussion of his own history as a probable child molester, and buddy and accomplice to pedophiles. Every few days, he throws something else into the media hopper. Recently, it was this, pronounced with the full solemnity and gravity we have come to expect from him:
If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!
It doesn't seem to have registered with headline writers that this constitutes the "president" of the United States' declaration of his intent to commit war crimes. As the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights put it a day or two before Trump's rant hit social media,
Attacks targeting civilian objects or infrastructure indispensable to the civilian population constitute serious violations of international humanitarian law and amount to war crimes. The law of war is clear: objects that provide services to the civilian population do not meet the strict definition of military objectives and are therefore civilian objects.
