Another strike has been carried out on a boat that President Donald Trump claims is an imminent threat to the United States. On Truth Social, Trump announced, "This morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a SECOND Kinetic Strike against positively identified, extraordinarily violent dr...
  • doctortofu@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    1 hour ago

    I mean, the first war crime had no consequences whatsoever, so why would he stop? I bet we’ll see more and more “extremely dangerous narcoterrorists” executed without due process or even a warrant - soon probably also within the US, not just on international waters…

  • Stamets@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 hour ago

    The United States is a terrorist nation that should be walled off from the rest of the civilized world.

    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      56 minutes ago

      The US is a product of European colonialism and white centrism. It would be nice, for those of us whose ancestors were already here prior to 1492 and I am sure for those whose ancestors were forced here in the interim, if people would stop trying to pretend that everyone here has culpability in the current state of affairs. Native Americans have literally only had the right to vote since the 70s.

  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    2 hours ago

    Entire seasons of television have had plots based on the U.S. government doing this once, either secretly or by accident, and how they strive to make amends and reparations to avoid international conflict, and it all happens behind closed doors because everyone is terrified of the certainty of scandal should word ever get out. And now here we are.

  • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialEnglish
    92·
    4 hours ago

    I mean honestly, US presidents killing random people and families the world over for literally no reason is nothing new. On the scale of Trump stuff, this is pretty minor, as sad as that is to say.

      • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Rumsfeld more or less bragged about it too, a lot of that crowd did. We haven’t had a serial killer in the White House for a few years, so it’s an adjustment back (and of course Trump is such an overtly vicious person that it’ll have a new flavor now), but this stuff is not new for Republicans.

        (Actually Biden and Bush Sr. are the only two presidents since Carter that I can remember that weren’t fans of blowing up random people directly with US forces for no reason. In Afghanistan they did an airstrike on a wedding.)