Much of the Signal discussion is overlooking a key point: an entire apartment building was leveled to kill one guy.
How many civilians died? Is this a war crime?
The religious language—“prayer,” “God bless,” “Godspeed to our Warriors”—makes it all the more revolting, like a game of Battleship from the safety of a church basement.
@chasewnelson LARPing a modern-day Crusades has been a fever dream of christian nationalists since the Reagan years. The ugly adventurism in Iraq and Afghanistan ramped it way up and here we are.
All this is missing is the CNN video clips of drone and guided missile strikes.
You could also call it terrorism. It was a choice to inflict terror on 57 families and neighbors to kill one man.
Terror to change political will...
@chasewnelson lots, yes, same as every Israeli strike.
America has been ok with committing war crimes, wholesale, since *checks notes* the Hague Conventions were signed in 1899
Of course it's a war crime, but not like the US ever cared when it comes to protecting the interests of its oligarchs.
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this is standard operation mode for the likes of the USA, Israel and Russia.
interestingly, the yellow peril from which we must be protected at all costs (especially truth, facts and transparency) does not have a history of doing this.
I wonder why it has taken the second trump term and this incident on Signal for people to realise the USA is a predator, not a saviour.
Nope the left has been shouting this for decades.
And I wouldn't point out that China doesn't have a history of bombing civilians. China has plenty of blood on their hands, whenever they get hold of new territory and the occupied country is unhappy about it.
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On the left side, there are three messages. The first message is from "JD Vance" at 12:13 P.M., stating, "I will say a prayer for victory." The second message, marked as "New" with an exclamation mark, is from "Michael Waltz" at 1:48 P.M., stating, "VP. Building collapsed. Had multiple positive ID of Pete, Kurilla, the IC, amazing job." The third message, also marked as "New," is from "JD Vance" at 2:01 P.M., saying, "Excellent."
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It was…
"My saunter began in the garden, just a few misplaced parts there. I couldn't really tell what they were, so I just walked through the broken door to the front room.
And there it was. That head. As a misplaced ornament upon the armchair. And then looking down I saw the infants body and my knees slightly buckled. I had seen much horror, the body parts of children were a daily chore, but this body was just a little too intact. I could tell where the neck used to attach both.
And since then I cannot be human.
For I had fired the rocket that destroyed them.
For the good of all mankind."
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That's why when the US attacks another nation or "terrorist" abroad they don't show images, just like most of Bibis horror in Palestine is mostly under veil of media black out.
The US learned that their onslaughts are not sustainable if the world is witnessing the human cost that comes with it.
@chasewnelson "God is always on the side of the white people."
They've made god in their own image.
@chasewnelson >an entire apartment building was leveled to kill one guy.
Same thing the Israelis are doing in Gaza. If they track the phone of someone they want to kill into a building, they bomb the building. The USA seems to admire Israel's tactics.
All empires are based on collective punishment. You cannot have an empire without it.
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