Rex Brynen (@rexbrynen.bsky.social)

Wargaming… this Today, President of the United States Donald Trump threatened to commit war crimes in Iran—a threat that is, in and of itself, a war crime. (Under the laws of war, measures of intimidation intended to sow terror among a civilian population are prohibited, as is direct and public incitement of genocide.) This follows, of course, an American attack on Venezuela aimed at seizing effective control over its oil resources; the summary execution of suspected drug couriers in the Caribbean by the US military; endorsement of ethnic cleansing of Palestinian from Gaza; the abandonment of Ukraine and closer alignment with Russia; frequent comments about annexing Canada; adoption of a national security strategy aimed against European liberal democracies; threats to seize Greenland by force from a NATO ally (alarming Europe sufficiently to spark… https://paxsims.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/wargaming-this/