But this story has stayed in media because Trump is so brazen, declassifying CIA documents and speaking openly about these war crimes. That’s new for America. Usually these things are denied for a few decades, claims to the contrary are called “conspiracy theory”, before being admitted quietly, maybe mentioned in a back page of the NY Times.
So I’m skeptical that anyone from the US government could ever be held accountable for war crimes or violations of international law, but who knows. This does feel different.
After 20+ years of forever war it only came up as a campaign issue, in how did someone vote for the Iraq war when they were in congress.
I'm outraged about Cheney's enshittification of our nation too, but truth is important.
(Like what happened to the psychiatrists they hired to come up with waterboarding and other torture methods?)
Fast forward to today and you have a wannabe King pardoning his own coupists, massive fraudsters, and conspirators with foreign states.
Americans don’t want rule of law. They don’t want norms. They want people to suffer and they take great pleasure at the concept. We must kill schadenfreude from our psyche or we will continue to celebrate this barbarism.
So long the suffering of "them" is greater, then the suffering I'm experiencing is justified and acceptable.
Not an American by the way.
So far all we have is 2 fishermen returned to their own countries, 80+ dead bodies, and all physical evidence at the bottom of the sea.
War crimes to support a narrative for a conflict the majority of Americans don't want.
asdefghyk•2mo ago
....the shipwrecked men still posed a threat ... In my opinion ...rubbish..
watwut•2mo ago
It was just a murder, literally to make the minister of war feels more manly.
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watwut•2mo ago
In a war situation, which this was not, this is a war crime.
kccoder•2mo ago