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The Crime of Aggression.We're number one! Hottest country in the world!!

In 1945 the Crime of Aggression was prosecuted for the first time in history before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. The crime was described by the tribunal as the “supreme international crime” as it “contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole”.  In his iconic opening statement, Robert Jackson described the trial as representing “mankind’s desperate effort to apply the discipline of the law to statesmen who have used their powers of state to attack the foundations of the world’s peace and to commit aggressions against the rights of their neighbors.”

Nuremberg Principle VI (a) included the crime of aggression (as part of the crimes against peace) under its remit.