Conversation

#DeclassifiedUK | UK leaders have betrayed those who fought in WW2

"Once the Nazis were defeated, the postwar world established a key principle. At the Nuremberg trials in 1945/46, the German leaders who were executed were convicted primarily of waging aggressive war. As the International Military Tribunal noted, aggression “is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime.”

Since 1945, British leaders have dispensed with the notion that invasions constitute such a crime.

The UK has itself deployed its military forces for combat over 80 times in 47 countries since the end of WW2. These episodes include outright invasions – notably Egypt (1956), Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003) – and interventions to remove governments that were tantamount to invasions – such as British Guiana and Iran (both in 1953), Indonesia (1957), Libya and Syria (2011)."

#War #UK #WW2 #MarkCurtis