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No, Might Does Not Make Right

The attacks on Iran by the United States and Israel are unraveling international law, the Geneva Conventions and the legitimacy of the United Nations. This is extremely dangerous for the future of the planet and humanity.

If the United States and Israel have the right to launch a unilateral attack against Iran, what is the moral or legal argument against China invading Taiwan, Russia attacking Poland or North Korea launching missiles into South Korea? There is none. In Trump’s world, any nation has the “right” to go to war against any other nation for any reason.

After the horrors of World War II, the international community came together to establish international law — a system of rules designed to prevent aggressive wars and hold nations accountable for violating basic human rights. Trump and Netanyahu are destroying that effort and are pushing the global community back into international anarchy — a world that produced 10 million dead in World War I and 50 million dead in World War II.

We cannot go back to a world where might makes right — where any nation can invade, bomb or destabilize another country for any reason they choose. That mentality leaves all of us, and future generations, increasingly unsafe.

Bernie Sanders is a US Senator, and the ranking member of the Senate budget committee. He represents the state of Vermont, and is the longest-serving independent in the history of Congress.

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