Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike Could Be a War Crime
A top Republican and Democrats in Congress suggested on Sunday that American military officials might have committed a war crime in President Trump’s offensive against boats in the Caribbean after a news report said that during one such attack, a follow-up strike was ordered to kill survivors.
The remarks came in response to a Washington Post report on Friday that said that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had given a verbal order to kill everyone aboard boats suspected of smuggling drugs, and that this led a military commander to carry out a second strike to kill those who had initially survived an attack in early September.
“Obviously if that occurred, that would be very serious, and I agree that that would be an illegal act,” Representative Mike Turner, Republican of Ohio and a former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, said on “Face the Nation” on CBS.
Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, said on CBS that if the report was accurate, the attack “rises to the level of a war crime.” And on CNN, when asked if he believed a second strike to kill survivors constituted a war crime, Senator Mark Kelly, Democrat of Arizona, answered, “It seems to.”
— The New York Times
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Trump Confirms Conversation With Venezuela’s Maduro
U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed on Sunday that he had spoken with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, but did not provide details on what the two leaders discussed.
“I don’t want to comment on it. The answer is yes,” Trump said when asked if he had spoken with Maduro. He was speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One. […]
“I wouldn’t say it went well or badly, it was a phone call,” Trump said regarding the conversation. The revelation of the phone call comes as Trump continues to use bellicose rhetoric regarding Venezuela, while also entertaining the possibility of diplomacy. — Reuters
Our Take:
You mean a land war is not imminent and Maduro is not currently fleeing to Turkey?
That is shocking. [Clip Link] — Chris Paul
Ordering the Killing of survivors of a first strike is definitely a war crime.
ReplyDeleteThe idiotic Hegseth needs to be charged and sent to prison.
Some 200 pound hairy guy who hasn't had a real woman in 10 years will have his pleasure with him.
Another type of “crime” committed by Eastern Bully in Latin America….
ReplyDeleteThe red dots show Chinese fishing vessels swarming Peru’s EEZ in 2024
525 Chinese boats in Peruvian waters, while Peru itself barely had 239
China’s greedy pirates emptied their own seas and are now hijacking the livelihoods of other nations’ fishermen.
https://x.com/dwalpiri/status/1992202885799792887?s=46
If you watch the red dots, you’ll see some vanish, not sailing back, just vanishing. That’s them turning off AIS to avoid tracking. In AIS-based videos, it looks like they’re outside the EEZ. But once the AIS is off, they can freely move inside.
ReplyDeletehttps://x.com/DWalpiri/status/1992936177712972094?s=20
If Eastern Bully so pandai farm your own fish lah. Don't curi orang lain punya.