• The Velour Fog @lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Why are they calling it a drug boat? It was never verified as a drug boat.

    Why can they instead say “repeats falsehoods” instead of “lies” because of legal ramifications but can call this vessel a “drug boat” without any confirmation that it had narcotics on it?

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      23 hours ago

      Americans don’t recognize the ICC when US military are the defandents…

      The United States signed the 1999 Rome Statute but it never ratified the treaty, taking the position that the International Criminal Court (ICC) lacks fundamental checks and balances.[1] The American Service-Members’ Protection Act of 2002 further limited US involvement with the ICC. The ICC reserves the right of states to prosecute war crimes, and the ICC can only proceed with prosecution of crimes when states do not have willingness or effective and reliable processes to investigate for themselves.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes

      It’s like with Netenyahu, someone has to comply and arrest them and take them to court, even then it’s debatable if the court would hold them for trial.

  • Gork@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    But didn’t Hegseth himself say that him authorizing the second strike was “fake news”?

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    1 day ago

    Bad headline. The first paragraph:

    White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Monday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth authorized the Sept. 2 strikes on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean, while saying it was Adm. Frank Bradley who specifically ordered a second strike that killed survivors.

  • DarkDecay@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    There is no room for non criminals in trumps administration. If it weren’t so pathetically inept it would be hilarious