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Even accepting the Trump administration’s claim that there is an armed conflict with suspected drug runners, the laws of war bar “perfidy.”

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    4 days ago

    These perfidious fucks…

    The nonmilitary appearance is significant, according to legal specialists, because the administration has argued its lethal boat attacks are lawful — not murders — because President Trump “determined” the United States is in an armed conflict with drug cartels.

    But the laws of armed conflict prohibit combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called “perfidy.”

    After Maduro other countries are going to shoot first at US military craft coming at them and not responding.

    So the US military launching attacks from aircraft disguised to be civilians, is other countries might then shoot first on civilian aircraft.

    They’re doing the same things to other countries that ICE is doing to Americans.

    • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip
      10·
      4 days ago

      Lured an Iranian general to a diplomatic meeting to assassinate him in his first term. War crimes are his favorite past time

    • TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today
      6·
      4 days ago

      Ngl the headline made me think they bombed a boat that had a civilian plane on it or something I was so confused till I read this comment

      • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
        6·
        3 days ago

        Sure, and thank you for your gifts to this community, but gift links aren’t permanent copies of an article as it exists at this point in time, which I think is always important to document with certain publications that have a mixed history on journalistic ethics (e.g. NYT, WaPo, CNN, etc. (for the record, I think they’re all way better than e.g. WSJ and conservative rags like that, but they’re still unreliable))