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Welcome back, friends. Welcome back to another edition of The Corbett Report. I'm your host, James Corbett.

Not as always, coming to you from the sunny climes of Putrejaya, the administrative center of Malaysia, here in September of 2025 with episode 482 of the Corbett Report podcast.

War is a Crime. Now, if you immediately and intuitively

grasp the simple, common sense ethical framework embedded in that concept, war itself is a

crime, then congratulations. You've got the idea and you can, of course.

You are invited to watch the rest of this podcast, but you can go on with your day because you already understand this.

However, unfortunately, I think most of the population still cannot wrap their minds around the concept of not criminalizing murder. Of course you can't go

out and murder your neighbor. Of course you can't go and travel to a foreign country and just

randomly murder someone. But if you put on a uniform, if you have orders from your commanding

officer, if there is a president or a prime minister giving a stirring speech about why it is that you have to go over and murder someone in a foreign land, well, then it's fair game, right?

If you are at all troubled by that idea, then perhaps this presentation is for you.

So let me contextualize it. Why am I here in Putrajaya in Malaysia talking about this?

It is because I was just invited to a conference that just took place yesterday, as I'm recording

this, here in Putrajaya, on the 20th anniversary of the Kuala Lumpur Initiative to Criminalize

War. If you have no idea about that initiative,

then I will, of course, provide links in the show notes.

So please follow the link to the show notes

to go and familiarize yourself with the material

around that 2005 initiative and declaration.

Long story short, back in 2005, the Prudana Leadership Foundation,

through its global peace cooperation, association, whatever it was called at the time,

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