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Hegseth Says He Did Not See Survivors of First U.S. Boat Strike, Citing “Fog of War”
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And this isn't a war? I mean, that's the biggest part. These are innocent fishing dudes, most of them.
Even if this was a war, which I agree it is absurd to claim there is any kind of war being threatened against the US here, this is still murder.
After a missile strike destroys a boat and leaves survivors clinging to burning wreckage, clearly neutralizing any possible threat as the missile strike victims are now in need of emergency rescue, it is a CLEARLY warcrime to leverage an overpowering military advantage to simply turn around and murder the survivors because... you can?
There is a logic and system of rules for what determines when lethal force is approved and necessary in most professional militaries, there certainly used to be in the US military although this administration is trying to destroy it as fast as possible with the hopes that it will make us some good reliable enemies and we will be dragged into another war that sufficiently distracts the US populace from how fucking stupid and incompetent these idiots are...
Absolutely, all of this. What I'm trying to point out is that these are fucking warships going after these little fisherman boats who are most likely just fisherman. It's insane to begin with.
It is terrorism, there is no other word for it, it is arbitrary indiscriminate violence that is heavily propagandized to instill fear in others for fundamentally political and irrational aims.