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Swede

(38,039 posts)
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 08:08 AM Saturday

Why do you need Seal Team 6 to blow up a fucking boat?

Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing

"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."

Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social

Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) 2025-11-28T18:13:03.471Z
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Arazi

(8,639 posts)
1. There's a deep cultural rot in the SOF about LOAC
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 08:13 AM
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Last edited Sat Nov 29, 2025, 08:57 AM - Edit history (1)

I wouldn’t be surprised if they volunteered to assassinate them.

Edited to add LOAC is law of armed conflict which governs international conflicts. We’re going to see that phrase used a lot going forward (Vietnam ghosts rouse from slumber)

sop

(17,075 posts)
2. Read Ryan Goodman's 7 follow-up posts to this thread, just below his posting in the Bluesky comment section.
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 08:19 AM
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He carefully presents the case for a war crime.

Botany

(76,039 posts)
3. Cold blooded murder
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 08:48 AM
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End of story. Those are outboard motors on those boats and in the Caribbean or the Pacific they
had zero chance of getting to America with drugs. And to murder to people clinging to the side
of their destroyed boats is a war crime.

Midnight Writer

(25,051 posts)
5. A blowhard morning team TV talk show host is suddenly given command of the mightiest military in history
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 10:17 AM
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Who could have possibly predicted he would go off the deep end on a murderous power trip?

It's alright to order soldiers to target and kill civilians as long as those soldiers are clean-shaven white studs.

LetMyPeopleVote

(173,407 posts)
6. Hegseth's orders for a second strike to execute survivors were illegal and constitute a war crime
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 12:23 PM
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This was a war crime



sop

(17,075 posts)
7. If these people were actually "narco terrorists" you'd think they would try to recover the wreckage and survivors
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 12:38 PM
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to show the world, not hit them again so there's nothing left. Why destroy "evidence," unless you're trying to cover up your crimes?

GoCubsGo

(34,593 posts)
8. Because Obama used Seal Team Six to kill Osama bin Laden.
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 02:00 PM
Saturday

And, Barack Obama has long lived rent-free in Trump's syphilitic tapioca-pudding-for-a-brain. The addled fuck probably believes he's one-upping President Obama.

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