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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 251 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Drop Site News reporter Ryan Grim noted that, in addition to striking what appears to have been a defenseless boat, the US also didn’t help rescue any of the shipwrecked men who were aboard the vessel.

“The Sri Lanka Navy was left to pull the dead bodies from the water,” Grim commented. “I am hard pressed to think of any other nation throughout history that would do something so cowardly and despicable. We are genuinely in a league of our own, and American media—mostly shrugging off the bombing of a girls school and acting as if carpet bombing Tehran is a normal military tactic—is deeply complicit.”

They torpedoed an unarmed ship and watched as everyone drowned. This is the US military under a drunken white supremacist fratboy working for a senile pedophile rapist.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 89 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Typically submarines aren’t in a position to offer refuge to shipwrecked sailors, but to my recollection there hasn’t been submarine warfare since WWII. They sank a ship that didn’t present any threat and likely could have been neutralized with a number of alternate approaches.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yup but also, the idea of submarines providing rescue went out the window. Even the nazis were trying to rescue people at one point, and the allies attacked them after they broadcasted their rescue attempts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconia_incident

The US has the most powerful military in the world. This was just cruelty

[–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

US carrying out war crimes since World War II.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Since before that.

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[–] cynar@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

The UK used submarines during the Falklands war.

The decision was made to sink an Argentinian warship. Critically, they didn't attack the escort ship. They left it to recover the sailors. Apparently it horrified the British command when it ran, leaving sailors in the water.

A simple radio message "Move and we will sink you. Take no offensive actions and we will give you 5 minutes to launch lifeboats first." Hell, even a sonar ping would have given them half a chance.

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Iirc, its an unwritten law of sailors... You rescue anyone at sea, even the enemy if you can. Drowning is a horrible death.

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

You at least do what you can to give them a fighting chance.

A radio message would have at least let them abandon ship in a (semi) orderly manner. Hell, even a solar ping would have got them into life jackets.

Normally, a sub wouldn't risk this. They knew in advance, however, that the ship was not currently armed.

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[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hey hey whoa whoa whoa, hold up there friend. You forgot Christian nationalist death cultist and pseudo-crusader-wannabe.

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[–] Fives@discuss.online 147 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Pete Hegseth is a fucking war criminal and he fucking better be prosecuted for this.

[–] Vizzerdrix@lemmy.world 91 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hell freezes over before US war criminals are properly prosecuted. There is even some weird law that the US invades The Hague, if they detain US personal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act

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[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Just like rumsfield and cheney! America got this!

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[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 74 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He ordered a double tap 🤷‍♂️

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've seen plenty of data points to suggest the IDF is running America and this is one of them

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 75 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The part where Rubio just flat out said Israel wanted war so now we're in it, was a pretty big one...

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[–] fonix232@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Accidental double click, must be using a well worn Logitech G500 series (those mice are notorious about the bad switches used in them which results in regular double clicks after about 2.5 years of use).

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[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 1 week ago

Like he said in a speech: "We kick the ones that are already down."

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Who was the sub captian that obeyed the illegal order? Name rank and serial number please.

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago (47 children)

It was not an illegal order. And it's also entirely possible the captain didn't know the status of the ships ammunition supply, or lack there of. Not that it changes anything from a legal standpoint.

But, it being a legal target doesn't change the fact that it was cowardly. Both are true.

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago (11 children)

How was it a legal target? We are not at war as idiot orange says.

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[–] discocactus@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hot take, if you elect a person who showed in their first term a total disrespect for international, national, and martial law maybe the kind of people you have in the armed forces aren't likely to be any better. The smart, moral people who also were high enough in the chain of command to matter have likely been purged or jumped ship to something less problematic.

The naive belief that any laws matter at this late hour is hard to understand, and harder to respect. This isn't going to blow over and "go back to normal." Which incidentally wasn't great either.

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[–] n4ch1sm0@piefed.social 52 points 1 week ago

Bombing defenseless ships had been Kegsbreath's hobby and pass time since last fucking year

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 44 points 1 week ago (12 children)

I think it's clear that Americans were always so ruthless, depraved and racist. Over the past decades they simply had good PR. They killed thousands of civilians in Hiroshima just to show off and then engaged in decades long campaign of murder, rape and plunder all over the world. The only thing that saved them from being seen for what they are was good marketing: movies selling the American dream, well behaved politicians pretending they are leading civilized country and economic power keeping everyone else in check. This is simply the mask falling off. Trump and his administration are to stupid to play the PR game and everyone can see what US really is.

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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 week ago

During the state of the union speech, Trump PROUDLY said that people are afraid to go fishing around Venezuela

[–] BiomedOtaku@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Its crazy how the whole world is to much of a pussy to do anything to the US.

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

The US has the single most powerful military force in the world. So when a deranged orange psychopath who has the ego of a cracked eggshell has access to the nuclear football that can call upon the destruction of life as we know it, you'd be careful too.

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[–] clot27@lemmy.zip 31 points 1 week ago

This bastard killed hundreds of defenseless people and we are doing condemnation here

He should be hanged

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That should be an automatic declaration of war.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Aren't we, like, way past that point...?

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[–] manniesalado@piefed.social 18 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Bloodthirsty maga savages did not even give the boys a chance to surrender. You see why Iran regards the Yanks as "The Great Satan"?
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[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Why Hegseth? He didn't push the button, but some idiot to whom ordinary Americans would shout "thank you for your service." "I'm just following orders" is not an excuse, many such people were shot by the Nuremberg Tribunal for war crimes they committed because someone ordered them to.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

Both, both is good

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[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Release the Epstein Files

[–] sheetzoos@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

These murderous pedophiles will do anything to distract from the Epstein files.

[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

All of this is happening because Israel is blackmailing American Pedophiles into war.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 28 points 1 week ago

The ones that followed his order? Apparently not.

[–] warbond@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In the calmest of times submarines have poor connectivity with the outside world, so there's no telling what they've been told.

[–] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They have been told that they are to engage with any Iranian vessels and to disregard international law (including the Genova Convention and such.)

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