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POLL: Did Pete Hegseht commit a war crime?
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Date: November 28th, 2025 9:46 PM Author: Amateur Millennial Butt Porn Assuming the following is true, does this constitute a war crime:
The longer the U.S. surveillance aircraft followed the boat, the more confident intelligence analysts watching from command centers became that the 11 people on board were ferrying drugs. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. “The order was to kill everybody,” one of them said. A missile screamed off the Trinidad coast, striking the vessel and igniting a blaze from bow to stern. For minutes, commanders watched the boat burning on a live drone feed. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack — the opening salvo in the Trump administration’s war on suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere — ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, two people familiar with the matter said. The two men were blown apart in the water. |
Date: November 28th, 2025 9:47 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK Yes. "Kill everybody" is not a military order. It's a psychopathic utterance. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5803903&forum_id=2:#49469200) |
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Date: November 29th, 2025 7:59 AM Author: Leftism is a mental disease They followed illegal orders!! They were ILLEGAL! OMG!!! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5803903&forum_id=2:#49469730) |
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Date: November 29th, 2025 8:13 AM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK That's a non-denial (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5803903&forum_id=2:#49469736) |
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Date: November 28th, 2025 9:48 PM Author: UN peacekeeper race of 2 survivors? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5803903&forum_id=2:#49469209) |
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Date: November 28th, 2025 9:50 PM Author: Amateur Millennial Butt Porn This was after they failed to survive. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5803903&forum_id=2:#49469214) |
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Date: November 28th, 2025 9:54 PM Author: UN peacekeeper Initial survivors yes. Race? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5803903&forum_id=2:#49469228) |
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Date: November 28th, 2025 9:50 PM Author: ...,....,,........ As an Officer, he is subject to getting some of that UCMJ-love.
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Date: November 28th, 2025 9:51 PM Author: Amateur Millennial Butt Porn Grok, Claude, and Chat all agree this is unambiguously a war crime, except that the best argument against it being a war crime is that this conflict does not qualify as a war, so it is actually just regular old murder. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5803903&forum_id=2:#49469217) |
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Date: November 28th, 2025 9:52 PM Author: Juan Eighty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5803903&forum_id=2:#49469221) |
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Date: November 29th, 2025 9:25 AM Author: '"'"'"''" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5803903&forum_id=2:#49469779) |
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Date: November 28th, 2025 9:52 PM Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband (oppose bitchbois) Idk if it's a "war crime," but probably violates some gay code of conduct and he should be busted down to Asst. Sec. of War. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5803903&forum_id=2:#49469218) |
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Date: November 28th, 2025 9:56 PM Author: Amateur Millennial Butt Porn Assistant TO the Secretary of War (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5803903&forum_id=2:#49469233) |
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Date: November 29th, 2025 1:16 AM Author: .,..,.,,.,..,,,.,.,.,..,..,..,.,..,,.,.,.,. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5803903&forum_id=2:#49469551) |
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Date: November 28th, 2025 9:56 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK It's really just plain old fashioned murder like you learned about in 1L (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5803903&forum_id=2:#49469235) |
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Date: November 28th, 2025 11:54 PM Author: concern boner what did ur 1L professor say about the extrajudicial killing of Mr. Usama Bin Laden? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5803903&forum_id=2:#49469473) |
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Date: November 28th, 2025 11:56 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK Due process doesn't always require a trial. Sometimes an AUMF is sufficient to deprive a person of life or liberty. Voted on by both houses and signed into law, and it's not a bill of attainder (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5803903&forum_id=2:#49469474) |
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Date: November 29th, 2025 12:02 AM Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband (oppose bitchbois) They’re not even sending their brightest anymore, bud. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5803903&forum_id=2:#49469481) |
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Date: November 29th, 2025 12:01 AM Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband (oppose bitchbois) I wasn’t in the same class, but I assume he would have referenced the congressional approval to use all necessary force against Al Qaeda: https://www.congress.gov/107/plaws/publ40/PLAW-107publ40.pdf
You: “but SecWar Pete was authorized by a post that POTUS made while gakked out on addy at 2:30 one morning.” |
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Date: November 28th, 2025 11:49 PM Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,.,.,:::,....,:,..,:.:.,:.::, Were the two survivors plausibly able to use the floating debris to mount a counterattack? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5803903&forum_id=2:#49469462) |
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Date: November 29th, 2025 12:48 AM Author: (she was a bowl of yams) ((zurich is stained)) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5803903&forum_id=2:#49469520) |
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Date: November 29th, 2025 1:43 PM Author: Amateur Millennial Butt Porn Questions that are rarely asked. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5803903&forum_id=2:#49470313) |
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Date: November 29th, 2025 1:47 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK There was a risk they might recover some drugs and smuggle them into America. All of these kills are predicated on the fact that drugs are lethal. Not flame. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5803903&forum_id=2:#49470321) |
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Date: November 29th, 2025 12:57 AM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK I do not believe, based on the facts in the Post story, that Bradley could have relied on Hegseth’s order—even if Hegseth formally ordered the second strike. The prohibition on targeting a disabled combatant is so clear that Bradley had a duty, in the words of 18.22.4 of the Manual, “to refuse to comply with clearly illegal orders to commit violations of the law of war.”
https://www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonorable-strike?r=4xo6yq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web |
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Date: November 29th, 2025 1:43 PM Author: Amateur Millennial Butt Porn (Hegseth's new lawyer) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5803903&forum_id=2:#49470314) |
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Date: November 29th, 2025 1:10 AM Author: .,.,.,.,,,,.,,.,.,.,...,,..,, Lol no (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5803903&forum_id=2:#49469543) |
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Date: November 29th, 2025 8:45 AM Author: sniggley If it was struck by an air strike, then it’s not a war crime. “Combatants” cannot surrender to an aircraft and can be legally killed even when they appear to be surrendering. There were several cases in the Iraq war where Iraqis threw down their weapons and put their hands in the air and were still killed via hellfire missile or 40mm grenades because they couldn’t be taken into custody by the Apache helicopters they were trying to surrender to. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5803903&forum_id=2:#49469746) |
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Date: November 29th, 2025 1:46 PM Author: Amateur Millennial Butt Porn Chat says you're applying a real rule incorrectly:
“If attacked from the air, you can kill them even after the initial strike.” — No. This is unlawful
Even in a full, declared armed conflict:
The moment individuals are:
out of the fight,
incapacitated,
shipwrecked,
drowning,
wounded,
thrown into the sea,
or otherwise unable to resist,
…they become hors de combat, and it is absolutely prohibited to kill them.
This is not optional. This is Article 41 of Additional Protocol I (customary even for states not party) and long-standing customary law.
Shipwrecked persons get special protection under Article 12 of Geneva Convention II. They are to be rescued and protected, not attacked.
✔ The doctrine that "combatants cannot surrender to aircraft" exists — but it is narrow. ❌ It does not justify killing incapacitated survivors. ❌ It does not apply to people in the water. ❌ It does not erase war-crime liability for airstrikes.
If the described second strike occurred, it would violate IHL in almost any legal framing. |
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Date: November 29th, 2025 9:10 AM Author: ms. appleberry's landing strip More retarded lib pearl clutching (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5803903&forum_id=2:#49469763) |