War crimes

Iran specifically targeted power generation in Kuwait, Bahrain and the UAE with little notice in the press but Trump announce such a strategy and some in the US said this would be a war crime. Going back to the Gulf War in 1991 and a half dozen times since the US has attacked the electric grid infrastructure in foreign countries. This was also used extensively in WW 2. During WW 2 this was only part of attacking civilian areas. Cities with no military bases or weapons facilities were bombed and millions of civilians were killed and injured. This was a deliberate attempt to demoralize the enemy which was considered the best way to win the war. Far more people in Japan were killed by firebombing cities than were killed by the two nuclear bombs. The threat to bomb power plants posed a new problem, when Sen Jeff Merkley condemned Trump’s threat to bomb power plants and urged US service members to refuse any orders to do so. This was reminiscent of when Gen Milley back in 2021 called China and said: In the calls, Milley sought to assure Li the United States was stable and not going to attack and, if there were to be an attack, he would alert his counterpart ahead of time, the report said.