Trump Is About to Make His Biggest Iran Decision Yet | Trending Ep421

Now, we've spent a lot of time there, it feels like pretty much since 2001, but it seems to be getting closer to a head, let's say, with what's going on at the moment with Iran.

It's been a bit of a stalemate, there's been a bit of limbo for quite a while now, but it does seem to feel like something's getting closer, good or bad.

Probably the latter.

So firstly, the UN have come out and announced that they have grounds to believe that the US have committed war crimes in Iran.

They are referring mainly to the attack on the girls' primary school right at the beginning of the conflict where Israel and the US attacked a school and then attacked it again just a few minutes later, which led to 177 civilians being killed, the large majority of which were young girls.

And obviously, you probably won't expect anyone to be seeing the Hague, anyone to be seeing the dock in the Hague, because war crimes in the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands is generally only for people who the West want to put out.

The US doesn't even recognise the court.

So war crimes are something that matters when Putin does them, supposedly, or matters when Saddam Hussein or Bashar al-Assad or Colonel Gaddafi or any of these other leaders commit them, according to Western powers.

But when Tony Blair, when George Bush, when Donald Trump, when Netanyahu, when they commit them, well, doesn't seem to get the same response.

When if a war crime has a definition, then by very definition, whoever does that has committed war crimes and should surely face exactly the same consequences and penalties as the next person.

But unfortunately, we don't live in a world like that, do we? We don't live in a world that is objective.

We live in a world that is very subjective.

And that comes down to the majority of the human race as well.

Most people will see who is doing something before deciding whether they support it or not.

They won't just look at the behavior and decide whether they support it or not.

Which to me, I find baffling.

Because if something's wrong, if killing, if maiming, if attacking somebody is wrong, if war is wrong, then surely it's wrong regardless of who is doing it.

Simple as that.

But unfortunately, we don't live in that world.

We live in a world where from the top down, things are acceptable to some and unacceptable to others.