Survivors Clung to Wreckage for Some 45 Minutes Before U.S. Military Killed Them(theintercept.com)
theintercept.com
Survivors Clung to Wreckage for Some 45 Minutes Before U.S. Military Killed Them
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/05/boat-strike-survivors-double-tap/
25 コメント
But there's no war. These are just crimes.
You voted for this America. The Latinos who turn coated on the Democratic Party so hard in 2024 are reaping what they sowed.
Americans don’t want rule of law. They don’t want norms. They want people to suffer and they take great pleasure at the concept. We must kill schadenfreude from our psyche or we will continue to celebrate this barbarism.
Americans don’t want rule of law. They don’t want norms. They want people to suffer and they take great pleasure at the concept. We must kill schadenfreude from our psyche or we will continue to celebrate this barbarism.
Not really sure why you are downvoted, but I'm inclined to agree with your sentiment. I've noticed this common thread of extracting glee in the suffering of others.
So long the suffering of "them" is greater, then the suffering I'm experiencing is justified and acceptable.
Not an American by the way.
So long the suffering of "them" is greater, then the suffering I'm experiencing is justified and acceptable.
Not an American by the way.
Admiral Brady is without honour, as are those who executed his war-crime.
None of what the US is doing in Venezuela is new ground for the empire. Failed CIA coup plots, bribing Maduro’s pilots and allies in hopes of betrayal, even military action like bombing boats on shaky “national security” grounds— the US has been doing this sort of thing in Latin America (and much of the world) since the 50’s.
But this story has stayed in media because Trump is so brazen, declassifying CIA documents and speaking openly about these war crimes. That’s new for America. Usually these things are denied for a few decades, claims to the contrary are called “conspiracy theory”, before being admitted quietly, maybe mentioned in a back page of the NY Times.
So I’m skeptical that anyone from the US government could ever be held accountable for war crimes or violations of international law, but who knows. This does feel different.
But this story has stayed in media because Trump is so brazen, declassifying CIA documents and speaking openly about these war crimes. That’s new for America. Usually these things are denied for a few decades, claims to the contrary are called “conspiracy theory”, before being admitted quietly, maybe mentioned in a back page of the NY Times.
So I’m skeptical that anyone from the US government could ever be held accountable for war crimes or violations of international law, but who knows. This does feel different.
The Iraq war set the standard. Darth Cheney made torture great again and nobody even saw trial.
After 20+ years of forever war it only came up as a campaign issue, in how did someone vote for the Iraq war when they were in congress.
After 20+ years of forever war it only came up as a campaign issue, in how did someone vote for the Iraq war when they were in congress.
Wasn't one private courtmartialed? Lynndie England. And googling says 7 faced courts-martial this year, while independently another court awarded $42M in damages to the prisoners (who survived).
I'm outraged about Cheney's enshittification of our nation too, but truth is important.
I'm outraged about Cheney's enshittification of our nation too, but truth is important.
Yeah, some justice but no one of consequence, which set the stage.
(Like what happened to the psychiatrists they hired to come up with waterboarding and other torture methods?)
Fast forward to today and you have a wannabe King pardoning his own coupists, massive fraudsters, and conspirators with foreign states.
(Like what happened to the psychiatrists they hired to come up with waterboarding and other torture methods?)
Fast forward to today and you have a wannabe King pardoning his own coupists, massive fraudsters, and conspirators with foreign states.
Seems US military is set up to be judge and jury .
....the shipwrecked men still posed a threat ... In my opinion ...rubbish..
....the shipwrecked men still posed a threat ... In my opinion ...rubbish..
They were never a theat. And their boat could not reach USA without refueling dozens of times.
It was just a murder, literally to make the minister of war feels more manly.
It was just a murder, literally to make the minister of war feels more manly.
And an admiral who felt threatened by two drowning people clinging to a piece of debris. I'll never be tough like this.
You would just … leave them?
Or do what they did in subsequent murder attempts when there were survivors: pick them up alive and return them from whence they came.
Because that's the only logical alternative? If this were truly the mission it claimed to be, they would capture and interrogate them obviously.
I mean, it would be better. The other option is to take them out of water. There is no universe where the only option to deal with shipwrecked people is to kill them.
In a war situation, which this was not, this is a war crime.
In a war situation, which this was not, this is a war crime.
djdjsjejb(5)
So far all we have is 2 fishermen returned to their own countries, 80+ dead bodies, and all physical evidence at the bottom of the sea.
War crimes to support a narrative for a conflict the majority of Americans don't want.