{"id":1436,"date":"2026-06-11T15:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2026-06-11T15:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:09:14","slug":"historian-warns-trumps-military-may-already-be-committing-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1436","title":{"rendered":"Historian warns Trump\u2019s military may already be committing war crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Historian and professor of strategic studies Phillips P. O\u2019Brien is warning that President Donald Trump\u2019s military may be committing war crimes, and doing so seems to be \u201cofficial\u201d U.S. policy.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1434\">Trump\u2019s Department of Interior won\u2019t turn over pledged money for America 250 event<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe USA seems to have deliberately and with foresight, committed a war crime as an act of policy,\u201d O\u2019Brien writes at his Substack newsletter. \u201cIf this is right, and all evidence seems to say it is, committing acts of terror is now an acceptable method of war in the judgement of the US government and, by extension, the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Brien points to the U.S. military\u2019s strike on \u201ctwo reservoirs and a water treatment facility in southern Iran,\u201d cutting off water to 20,000 civilians in what OBrien says is 115-degree heat, similar to America\u2019s Death Valley.<\/p>\n<p>He explains that it likely was a deliberate attack because there are no military installations in the area, \u201cand the destruction was precise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is \u201chard to see this as a mistake,\u201d he writes. \u201cThe target was too specialized, too localized and the effect seems calibrated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asking, \u201cIs It A War Crime?\u201d O\u2019Brien answers, \u201cWithout a doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. \u201chas attacked, seemingly deliberately, a facility vital to the maintenance of human life that has no discernible military utility. So yes, it is a war crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1432\">How an explosive Senate race became a referendum on Brett Kavanaugh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Making the act even more \u201cperverse,\u201d writes O\u2019Brien, is that \u201cthis war crime was deliberately committed because Donald Trump is getting frustrated that the Iranian government is not doing what he wants them to do and that the Iranian military attacked a legitimate military target, a US Apache helicopter that was enforcing a blockade (an act of war remember) against Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Brien calls it \u201ctypical, Trump,\/organized crime style behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump \u201cattacks a small civilian facility as a threat and warning to Iran that he might go on and commit even greater war crimes if they do not do what he wants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later, \u201cwhile speaking to Fox News reporters, Trump went ahead and said he might start mass attacks on Iran\u2019s bridges and electricity power generation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe also tweeted out that if Iran did not do what he wants it to do, that it would have to \u201cpay the price\u201d of their defiance,\u201d says O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n<p>He concludes that a \u201chistoric war crime\u201d was committed \u201cbecause the President of the USA can think of nothing better to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=1430\">Trump\u2019s latest meltdown left advisors shaken: ex-defense official<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historian and professor of strategic studies Phillips P. 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