Ben Roberts-Smith, #Australia's most decorated living soldier, has been arrested and charged with five counts of war crime murder.

[…] Justice Anthony Besanko found that Roberts-Smith ordered a junior soldier on his patrol to execute the older man, before he forcibly manhandled the disabled man outside the walls of the compound, where he threw him to the ground and fired his para minimi machine gun into his prone body, killing him.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/07/ben-roberts-smith-arrested-brs-australian-soldier-sas-alleged-war-crimes-ntwnfb

Looks unsettlingly like #Hegseth’s cousin. A future war criminal for sure, with #Trump, if he lives another decade.

#australia #hegseth #trump #Afganistan