BACKGROUND
1) Harriet Barber, “Trump lashes out at Putin as Ukraine ceasefire talks stall; US president ‘p—ed off’ as Russian counterpart demands that Volodymyr Zelensky be replaced with transitional government:” The Telegraph, March 30, 2025 (8:09pm BST);
2) Adam Schiff, Schiff Notes
3) Norm Eisen and Rasha Rangappa, “coffee with the Contrarians,” March 31, 2025.
President Trump should be reminfed of thevwords in Aricle 2 paragrap 4 of the United Nations Charter, which provides:
Article 2
The Organization and its Members, in pursuit of the Purposes stated in Article 1, shall act in accordance with the following Principles.
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All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.
Why does Article 2 (4) prohibit both the use of force and the threat the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state”?
The answer is quite clear.In the recent experience of the founders of the U.N. in San Francisco in December 1945 was the annexation of Austria and its incorporation into the state of Germany in March 1936 (the so-called Anschluss) under the threat of military invasion, and the cession of the Sudetenland (German-speaking provines of Czechoslovakia) oursuant to the Munich Pact of September 30, 1938.
Trump’t threat to bomb Iran if tgey don’t agree to a nuclear settlement is a clear violation of Article 2 (4) of tge U.N,p. Charter, and also of ttge 1868 on-proliferation Treaty to which both Iran and the U,S. are parties.