Trump threatens massive war crimes; Sullivan, Begich assent with silence

Alaska’s Republican leaders still have nothing to say about their supreme leader threatening war crimes.

Their silence makes them complicit.

In their Easter Sunday political ritual of sanctimony, Sen. Dan Sullivan and Rep. Nick Begich the Third didn’t mention that Americans woke this Easter Sunday to Donald Trump’s edict— “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell.”

Sullivan and Begich cheered Trump’s disastrous decision to go to war. Trump and his courtesans didn’t bother to think any of this through.

The silence of Sullivan and Begich, as Trump says “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” is criminal.

“The stunning statement from Trump could put U.S. forces in legal jeopardy if they comply, experts and former military officials told WaPo’s Adam Taylor and Ellen Nakashima,” Politico said.

“Jameel Jaffer, a longtime human rights lawyer and lecturer at Columbia University, said Trump’s latest threat to extinguish a “whole civilization” meets the “very definition of terrorism — to seek to achieve political ends through violence or threats of violence directed at civilians,” the Washington Post reported.

“Trump’s comments were “blatant expressions that he is willing to turn the United States into a rogue State like Iran and Russia,” two former military lawyers, Margaret Donovan and Rachel VanLandingham, wrote for Just Security in an article published on Monday.”