• SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works
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    1 hour ago

    The US government can not be trusted. The UK government can not be trusted. The Iranian government can not be trusted. The Israeli government can not be trusted.

    I think I am starting to see a pattern.

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    Goddam UK, didn’t Starmer say he WOULDN’T allow this?
    This is participation in war crimes!

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    So they’re just loading the bombers right by the fence where journalists can see? Probably an order from Trump to stir up things up because the UK said they couldn’t launch attacks from the UK.

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      I would assume anything the epstein empire (america/israel) have bombed are now legitimate targets in any country that loads bombs onto their planes. This would suggest junior schools, hospitals, shopping malls all have targets on them and there’s nothing you can do about it. americans voted for WWIII. congrats.

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      2 hours ago

      If you’re Iranian. So are all your neighbors, including hotels, and any ship in nearby waters.

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      I may be naive, but I honestly didn’t think UK would allow this, when Starmer clearly stated the war on Iran is illegal. Especially not after USA has been caught in several war crimes.

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        Didn’t he literally say he’d allow their use for “defensive” strikes? He’s never really been hiding it.

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        I could be wrong but I think the way foreign litany bases work is that they are in the thinnest legal sense “sovereign foreign territory.” To which I mean, the activities conducted on these bases are outside the control of the country who’s land they occupy.

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          1 hour ago

          This is a common misconception (it doesn’t actually apply to embassies either, from which the myth arose). Every military base of a nation within another nation’s territory is governed by a status of forces agreement (SOF); usually a large general SOF for all locations in the territory and also a narrower SOF that applies to that site specifically.

        • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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          2 hours ago

          That does not sound like a good idea. I would expect a country would want to maintain sovereignty of their own territory.
          Of course embassies have something similar to what you describe, but if an embassy is breaking the law, the diplomats can be expelled.

    • shameless@lemmy.world
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      Starmer the flim flam man. He stands for nothing and will go with anything, he has no morals.