Hello, and welcome to opening arguments. This is a bonus episode. There is no number. I'm Thomas. That's Andrew and also with him is Andrew's dog, which who you will probably hear because this is a live unedited. Get it to you as fast as possible bonus episode. So how are you and your dog?

We are fantastic. Also, don't forget it's the holidays. So for another day or two, Blasto is still here. So there are actually two dogs, one of whom is 900 pounds. So, yeah.

Blasto did I'll never forget was the New York show when all of a sudden there was a there's a moose on stage with us. Yeah. And I was like, Hey, Andrew, I don't want to alarm you during this live show, but there's a there's a moose on the stage. Yeah, you said, oh, that's Blasto. Yeah, it was apparently a dog. Yeah.

Yeah, mostly is the first because it's an endless moose. Don't alarm anyone, but there's a zone nearby. There was an escape. Usually the comparison is bear. Yeah, but I thought moose would be funnier. I'm here to bring the comedy. So right.

When he rears up, he's he can put his paws on my shoulders. And you're seven foot three. So that's right. Yeah. I used to play center for the Lakers as a

So anyway, get to our fire puppies are cute, but yeah, let's get to our bonus questions. These were of course at patreon.com slash law. That's where we allow our VIPs to ask Andrew all the tough questions. So

as I as I teased in the last episode, I'm going to do it again. I'm going to read it again. P Andrew Taurus brings enough evidence to move the noodle.

Great patron name double shout out. They ask. So targeting historical sites. Is it really a war crime? And what are the unit S and sorry, what are the US and international

remedies? I know that was probably condensed a little bit, but that was the thrust of the question. So what do you think? Yeah, this was I'm glad this was the

The first question because this really gives us an opportunity to answer an umbrella of a lot of questions, which is sort of what's international law?

How has Trump violated it? What can we do about it? And and I'm ready to do kind of a kind of a not even a mini an actual deep dive on on all of those questions.

First, let's quote our president quote. They're allowed to kill our people. They're allowed to torture and maim our people. They're allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people.

And we're not allowed to touch their cultural sites. It don't work that way.

Is either Trump or fat Tony from the Simpsons. I'm not sure. I was I was trying to channel more Trump than Joe Montana, but yeah, there's a little bit of overlap there.

Anyway, most good answer start like that. Yeah, yeah, that is every organ in my body trying to strangle my brainstem simultaneously.

So that's a horrible gross and stupid thing for a president of the United States to say, is it also an illegal thing? And again, the answer as with everything involving our corrupt

game show host of a president is that is yes, but but is you have to ask two questions right you have to ask, is this a violation of the law right cash tag clear as

question and then I ask, but will it matter? But what yeah, what can we do about it? Yeah, so so let's talk about that right first. This is very plainly a violation of the law.

And I want to unpack exactly what that is. You've seen this in some media places, but I don't know that the reporting has been great.

And I want to explain precisely sort of the internet, the interaction between international law and US law. Right. So the United States and Iran are both signatories to and have domestically ratified the 1954

Hague convention for the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict. That is the full name of the treaty. Right. Like there are lots of Hague convention treaties because you know, and so so that's the full name of the treaty.

That treaty has both in its purpose and in its actual implementation prohibitions on exactly what Donald Trump did.

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