Rights groups have slammed Pete Hegseth for saying that “no quarter” will be shown to Iran.
"No quarter" includes executing people who've surrendered.
The mere announcement from a govt official can be a war crime.
Such threats are illegal under the Hague Convention & US domestic laws & military manuals.
Hegseth has publicly claimed he would not abide by “stupid rules of engagement”
Hegseth is military trained & he's no fool:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hegseth
If American law does not apply to the U.S government why would international law.
Plus the entire war was illegal to begin with... as were all of America's wars since Hiroshima and Nagasaki....
This also puts his own service members in danger if they're captured.
He has no interest in anyone else's wellbeing, not even that of his own forces. He's just interested in making himself look macho while others die because of him.
Yes, exactly.
Thing is, guys such as Hegseth are not "normal" people that typically fear & avoid such scenarios.
Their psychopathic brain structure leaves them incapable of empathy, &, hence, conscience.
They live for power. Only the regular squirts of adrenalin let them know they're still alive.
Ditto Trump & Netanyahu.
While not all psychopaths do harm, this lot is bringing on ww3.
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Legal officers would explain that more dispassionately and technically but many members of his forces might explain clearly and at length if given the opportunity.
And some duct tape.
The legal officers were useful.
@menos @DrALJONES it's strategically extremely dumb - if you're after a quick win then you want your enemy to surrender! it only makes any kind of sense if you're losing a defensive war and desperate.
which raises the question - is DUI Pete 1) evil and trying to maximise suffering on both sides or 2) too stupud to know what 'no quarter' means and saying it to sound cool?
Not 2) (See his w'pedia page)
Pete "K*ll-All-Muslims" Hegseth highly likely has malignant narcissism (psychopathy).
Psychopathic brain structure is bereft of empathy, &, hence, of remorse or conscience.
Power is all that matters to psychopaths. They live for the regular squirts of adrenalin that tell them they're still alive.
While not all psychopaths do harm, Pete's a doozy.
"Experts"?
He's not a coward, but the thng is, Pete "K*ll-All-Muslims" Hegseth highly likely has malignant narcissism (psychopathy).
Psychopathic brain structure is bereft of empathy, &, hence, of remorse or conscience.
Power is all that matters to psychopaths. They live for the regular squirts of adrenalin that tell them they're still alive.
While not all psychopaths do harm, Pete's a doozy.
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Store pictures, documents, witness depositions etc outside the USA and NOT on American cloud services.
Get payroll records. Identification. Car leases.
Gear up for investigations & trials.
Fund independent journalism, because like the Epstein Files, the culpable are going to fight public exposure every step of the way.
Yes, exactly. The UN was designed by the imperialists for the imperialists.
I argue that international law is not the issue here. It's one of practicality.
A belligerent that offers medical id and humane treatment of prisoners is more likely to see its own soldiers get the same.
If we are cruel on the battlefield, we will see our own pilots executed by burning in a cage.
@Stinson_108 pretty much this..
on the other hand, traitors burning in cages is probably just peachy
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Everyone knows in Trump’s world, if you are captured you're a loser.
ETA - easy to say if you make sure you never see combat.
Re "international law is not the issue here. It's one of practicality."
They're not mutually exclusive. And oughtn't to be if we favour rule of law above fascism
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And condemn your trespasses,
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Forward we march toward temptation, delivered from the evil of Wokeness" - the Prayer a large group of White Evangelicals recently made while laying hands on Trump
Trials aside, the thing about Pete "K*ll-All-Muslims" Hegseth is that he highly likely has malignant narcissism (psychopathy).
Psychopathic brain structure is bereft of empathy, remorse & conscience.
Power is all that matters to psychopaths. They live for the regular squirts of adrenalin that tell them they're still alive.
While not all psychopaths do harm, Pete's a doozy (see his w'pedia page).
We need to stop feeding them ($$ & votes) & educate others to recognise them.
Peter the drunk godsucking candy-handed poncy TV Princeton bimbo is a study in "failing upwards when you're white". Punkass Peter is a tap-out.
The main thing about Pete "K*ll-All-Muslims" Hegseth is that he highly likely has malignant narcissism (psychopathy).
Psychopathic brain structure is bereft of empathy, &, hence, of remorse or conscience.
Power is all that matters to psychopaths. They live for the regular squirts of adrenalin that tell them they're still alive.
While not all psychopaths do harm, Pete's a doozy (see his w'pedia page).
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I am absolutely uninterested in the psychology of nazis. There are too many to claim they're textbook cases of any kind anymore, and not just the sick human monsters that half of us are naturally. Fuck understanding.
Peter the Drunk doesn't have any right to my compassion or consideration.
Geraldo, Phil, and Jerry and the rest shilled for the dirty nazis to America on daytime TV, selling "both sides" when there is only always 1. Be good, or be gone.
Re "I'm absolutely uninterested in the psychology of nazis"
Yes i see that. Which may be why you mistakenly imagine that to explain is to condone.
As if to explain how cancer works is somehow to "condone" it.
As if we can work out how to prevent or stop something without understanding how it functions.
Yes, so let's keep enabling, funding, voting for the periodic resurrection of Nazism because "knowing your enemy is condoning it." Good thinking 🤷♀️
There was no hint of my imagining or implying that, Dr. Jones. (ha. fuck yeah, i got to say that).
Unless you're saying daytime TV is academia and my jab against the pop-psychologizing of nazis by jackass ratings hounds hit the entire foundation of grey-mattery.
Whatever trigger of guilt that may've pinged, sorry.
What I will clarify as my point, is, I don't need tomes about Peter the Drunk in order to define him as the enemy he wants me to accept him to be. That's it. Blow.
"Fuck understanding. Peter the Drunk doesn't have any right to my compassion or consideration."
And you interpreted that as meaning to me that it's all useless and enabling?
More Sarah Bernhardt than Dr. Jones. Lots of gas lights there, too. 😄
Nazism isn't a goddamn mental condition.
Fascism isn't a defect. It's the default.
@GGMcBG @DrALJONES 100% agree with "Nazism isn't a goddamn mental condition.
Fascism isn't a defect. It's the default."
Every trait that people love to call narcissism or psychopathy can boil down very easily into white supremacy and patriarchy. Pretty much every white person in the US is somewhere on that spectrum, but the less power someone has the less their harmful beliefs are other people's problem. The regime is not full of mentally ill people, it's full of powerful white supremacists.
Sorry, can't follow, as your sentences are missing the subject... are you talking about what Hegseth is doing? or several people?
Yes.
However, what matters to Hegseth is that Trump supports him.
The main thing about Pete "K*ll-All-Muslims" Hegseth is that he highly likely has malignant narcissism (psychopathy).
Psychopathic brain structure is bereft of empathy, &, hence, of remorse or conscience.
Power is all that matters to psychopaths. They live for the regular squirts of adrenalin that tell them they're still alive.
While not all psychopaths do harm, Pete's a doozy (see his w'pedia page).
If only...
I can't share your optimism.
If you read history, you see ~6000 years of tyrants going unpunished, while a few down tne food chain take the wrap.
Exactly. That's how fascism works.
Spread the word - too many, dare I say mainly Americans, still believe in Good Daddies who would prosecute baddies if only they knew...
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