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Descriptive text: Bob Rae says, "The UN Charter was drafted in 1945 by people who had learned the lessons that the aggression, isolationism and tariff barriers of the 20's and 30's had led the world into a conflagration. Article One makes it clear: threats of annexation are illegal. So are unilateral tariffs in breach of a trade agreement." Robert Scott Horton explains, "Bob Rae is Canada's permanent representative to the UN. He was also recently selected by his diplomatic colleagues as the new head of ECODOC. What he writes here is blackletter international law. Amazing isn't it that Trump engages in precisely the sort of threats that Hitler leveled at Poland and Czechoslovakia in 1937-39, without the fact of this flagrant violation of law even being mentioned in the thousands of hours of air time of talking head "experts" on American broadcast media. A profound demonstration of the crudeness of US reporting on international law issues. John Vaneldik via Reboot Alberta says, "There you have it. Trumps actions are exactly like Hitler's actions against Poland... and against the laws of the United Nations.