Press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed the apparent war crime was legal even as she said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth knew nothing about it.
The White House on Monday shifted the blame for killing the survivors of a U.S. military strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and onto the commanding admiral.
Killing survivors of a destroyed vessel is literally an example of a war crime in the U.S. Department of Defense Law of War Manual. “For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal,” the manual reads.
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt, nevertheless, repeatedly stated that it was legal – even as she further claimed, as Donald Trump did Sunday, that Hegseth was unaware that it had happened.
Do you want the military to coup d’etat your ass? Because throwing your admiral under a
busboat will make many military leaders think…Eh, what am I saying? Please keep throwing them, we all want a coup at this point
Confirming the military should not follow through with illegal orders.
Killing survivors of a destroyed vessel is literally an example of a war crime in the U.S. Department of Defense Law of War Manual. “For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal,” the manual reads.
RTFM
I didn’t see anything about reading the fan mail…
That’s like what my understanding of fubar was, face unrecognizable, belay any response.
Thanks Dad.
Combined with a pretty bad case of face blindness led me to telling a fellow classmate a professor was “fubar” in public…
I’m confused—I thought that acronym was ‘fudged up beyond any repair’? I also don’t get ‘belay any response’. Does this mean to ‘remain unresponsive’? The confusion here being that belay means to halt essentially—so the word choice doesn’t make intuitive sense to me.
If this was all just a setup for the joke, apologies for the technicalities
I think it works as instructions on how to face Cthulhu. Or maybe explains deer reacting to headlights.
Edit: I was reading ‘face’ as a verb as in 'to confront", instructing you to face the unrecognizable.
On the other hand I guess it could be a suggestion that you hide any recognizable facial responses to something.
Your understanding of the term, assuming you replaced “fucked” with “fudged”, is correct. The explanation given by the father was a lie to avoid teaching curse words to a child.
If he ordered it, or complied with the order from above, lock him up. If not, this accusation is yet another confession.
Time to make this witness cooperative.
We also don’t fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement, just common sense, maximum lethality and authority for warfighters.
Pete Hegseth [Source]
warfighters
I fucking hate the way this LARPer talks about armed forces
What do you expect? The man is a washed-up talk show host and a drunk. He is by no means the only completely unsuitable buffoon in this incompetent, criminal administration.
Just for comparison: the Secretary of Education, Lisa McMahon, is a former wrestling promoter (Vince McMahon’s wife), and the Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is a conspiracy theorist and anti-vaccination advocate - not to mention the president.
All of this is so ridiculous that it would be funny if it weren’t costing so many lives…
He’s an idiot
Indeed, and a murderer
I mean did you expect anyone in maga to take responsibility for anything negative?
As was said elsewhere, the transmitted command will have been recorded. The hard undeniable truth can be provided. Congress just needs to subpoena it, or a soldier with a conscience needs to whistleblow and leak it. Otherwise, we trust the liars’ word and they get away with yet more of what are unquestionably, objectively, war crimes.
Kill. Them. All.
And I don’t mean boat.
“Burn. Them. All.” , Hegseth
Mad King Aerys II vibes.
I can’t believe it was Joe Biden that flew the plane.
I heard Obama told him too
Pretty sure Obama was the weapons specialist on board… gees.
Hillary coordinated it all from email!
It’s all on the private server!
And all the males Hunter buttered up!
This is the whole point of “chain of command”. The suckers are at the bottom. This admiral should be grateful that he’s not dead in the ditch somewhere like his victims abroad and in the lower ranks.
Dear America,
You are disposable to them.
and i really wish people would understand it was that way before trump too. trump admin is a little more extreme and blunt about it.
America is a nation of purposely indoctrinated naivety and privilege that provides escapism from honest humanity. Its not just the government its the culture of arrogance. Some how you are all proud and willing to pay for people to be killed so you can remain free-range cattle for a nation of business to profits off and manipulates and uses your entire existence.
America is a threat to humanity as a whole.
Dear
AmericaEarth,You are disposable to them.
Gotta keep those trains running on time.
Follow illegal orders, get thrown under the bus.
Dont follow illegal orders, get thrown under the bus.
Stop the bus
you know I’m starting to think that maybe they should just deal with the people giving the orders
That’s very uncommon for brainwashed crowd called “military” to do so.
… and following the orders.
Its probably best to distance from the MAGA insanity if at all possible.
Ok… So common sense would read that as: ’ it wasn’t legal, it’s a prime example of a war crime, and Pete may not have explicitly approved of that action, but probably gave a vague order like ‘no survivors’ , which the admiral took literally, and so it’s entirely the admirals fault for not disobeying an unlawful order. ’
All I want for Christmas is a military coup, cold hard justice for the traitors enabling Trump, and emergency elections, monitored by the military, and un observers
Ordering that operations be conducted on the basis that there be “no survivors” is also specifically cited as an example of a war crime by the same manual: “Moreover, it is also prohibited to conduct hostilities on the basis that there shall be no survivors, or to threaten the adversary with the denial of quarter.”
All I want for Christmas is a military coup
It’s too late for that. The entire point of this is to make sure everyone left in the military understands that they’ll be executed if the dictator falls.
When. When the dictator falls.
Dictatorships can last for more than a lifetime. There’s no guarantee those complicit in its formation won’t die of old age before it falls.
Trump’s almost certainly going to die of old age before any meaningful amount of Democrats realize that pacifism is not a virtue, that there’s no nobility in victimhood. The question to ponder now is who Trump’s successor will be, and if they’ll be able to keep power without the cult of personality.
Can it be a war crime if you’re not actually at war? Seems like it’s just murder.
Don’t need to be at war to commit “war crimes”
There has to be an armed conflict between two or more nations. Otherwise they’re “just” crimes.
A military court has murder charges it can bring. The recent letter from JAGS Working Group specifies the war crimes and murder separately.
Edit to add article: Legal Experts Accuse Hegseth of ‘War Crimes, Murder, or Both’ After New Reporting on Boat Strike Order
Former top military lawyers on Saturday said that new reporting on orders personally given by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in early September, when the military struck the first of nearly two dozen boats in the Caribbean, suggests Hegseth has committed “war crimes, murder, or both.”
of course,the whole concept of war crimes is hilarious.
Blow up a boat with a missile killing people? OK
Kill them after you sunk the boat? NOT OK.
the first one is illegal since we’re not at war, they weren’t an immediate threat, etc
the second is super illegal cause it’s considered a war crime
Exactly. The reason why there’s so much heat on this particular incident is simply because there’s zero grey area. Like, in general the blowing up “drug boats” stuff is almost certainly a war crime, but it at least falls within the “Lawyers can argue it in court” realms. Whereas killing survivors of a sunken ship is literally the textbook definition of a warcrime in the US military’s own manual on this stuff. It is so cut and dried that they use it as an example of a de facto illegal act.
