FloonPablo Martini (Geezer) (@[email protected])
I don't think most Americans have ANY idea what Donald Trump did to these unarmed Iranian sailors. It was a gross mass murder thousands of miles away from Iran. Of course it was an international war crime, but the world does not currently have a single force willing to apply any of these laws. They basically function as legal theories with few consequences Earlier this week the United States did something truly despicable. It’s an undeniable war crime. It’s mass murder. And ultimately is going to cause ships across the world to be open targets. This is not how the American media has reported it at all. Thousands of miles away from Iran, an Iranian ship was invited to participate in an international boat show by India. The United States was also invited to participate and was scheduled to be there until the day before when they pulled out. The Iranian ship, which was unarmed, was there for what was basically a glorified military boat parade. The United States knew this. None of it mattered. Without warning the United States torpedoed the ship, slaughtered the crew, which was mainly young sailors, and left the survivors there to drown. The United States then filmed and watched as Iranian sailors died and drowned. Even Nazis didn’t do this when they targeted ships. In the end, Sri Lanka recovered 87 bodies and rescued 32 survivors. Dozens more are still missing. Then America’s Secretary of Defense celebrated the sinking as “quiet death” and posted the snuff film of the ship being hit and the young sailors dying all over the Internet If you value reporting that stays free for the world—for readers in Gaza, families living in deep poverty, students trying to understand the truth, and people who can’t afford paywalls—please click here to become a member. And if you want to choose your level of support, click here to join as a monthly, annual, or founding member. Your membership keeps our work free for them—and even for you, when you can’t afford to pay. The North Star with Shaun King is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Now let’s talk about what happened at sea—because this story is not a footnote. It’s a warning. Quiet death? That phrase is morally rotten. What does it even mean? Because there is nothing “quiet” about bodies floating in the Indian Ocean, about families waiting for sailors who never come home, about a country forced to pull corpses out of the water while the government that fired the torpedo performs triumph on camera https://www.thenorthstar.com/p/i-dont-think-most-americans-have
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