The war in Iran may be ending, maybe, but the legal and moral reckoning is just beginning.

Grant sits down with Oona Hathaway, Yale Law School professor and one of the country's foremost international law experts, to confront the questions most people aren't ready to ask: has the United States already violated the laws of war in Iran, and if so, what does that mean for America's place in the world once the fighting stops?

In this episode:

• Why over 100 international lawyers say the war itself was illegal under the UN Charter and the U.S. Constitution
• What the strikes on schools, hospitals, and civilian infrastructure mean under the Geneva Conventions
• Whether Trump's threats to destroy "an entire civilization" cross into genocide territory
• How America's allies are quietly building a world that doesn't depend on us anymore
• Why the consequences of breaking these norms don't end when the war does — and what accountability could actually look like

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