Excellent piece. Two key points, in my view:
"The strike manufactured the war whose laws it now invokes for cover."
"Whatever is permissible for Israel and the United States in 2026 is available to any state with the reach to attempt it in 2027."
"Washington cannot undo the Khamenei strike, and it is in no position to condemn an operation it materially supported. What it can do, and ought to do, is formalize a legal position before the next conflict forces one out of it," writes William "Chip" Usher. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/kill...
How one strike rewrote the law of leadership decapitation.
