• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    71
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    4 days ago

    “You’re going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.

    Already did, an apartment building full of people just to get one dude from what I understand. But yeah, let’s focus on the security concerns bcz that’s more flashy. Not like we haven’t been bombing other countries for decades.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      34
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      4 days ago

      Not to mention: they targeted the dudes girlfriend’s apartment.

      Like… wow. Not even his own house. In any other administration, this’d be indefensible. Now, it’s just Tuesday or whatever.

      Edit: I know this happened under Obama. I am absolutely not defending those actions. With that said, I’d bet a decade of my salary that they took the situation a whole lot more seriously than the DUI hire approach of “lol fuckin send it 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 “. That obviously doesn’t excuse the innocents killed by strikes ordered by Obama. But it is relevant context, and it speaks to the gravity (or lack thereof) that the respective involved parties treated the situation with.

  • TommySoda@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    35
    ·
    4 days ago

    Of course they are. And everyone in the military should feel this way because this whole thing just shows that potentially every single order or piece of intel they have gotten for the last 2 months has been through Signal at some point. And what this also shows is that the people that are in charge of these departments do not even give a fuck about the safety of anyone in the military. I know there has always been certain degrees of separation between those in charge and those doing the actual work, but they’d risk national security and the lives of our military in order to avoid record keeping laws and are now lying to everyone that it’s not a big deal.

  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    18
    ·
    edit-2
    4 days ago

    From the article …

    The chat included Vice President JD Vance; Secretary of State Marco Rubio; the national security adviser, Michael Waltz; and others, but not the acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Christopher Grady, the highest-ranking military official.

    Mr. Parnell said that “military leadership are frequently not included in political meetings.”

  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    18
    ·
    4 days ago

    Pete Hegseth: My The orders came through. We’re The squadron ships out tomorrow. We’re bombing the storage depots Houthi Stronghold at Daiquiri Yemen at 1800 hours. We’re coming in from the north, below their radar.

    Reporter: When will you they be back?

    Pete Hegseth: I can’t tell you that. It’s classified.

  • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    13
    ·
    4 days ago

    So? Trump SAID its OK and Trump LOVES those LOSERS and SUCKERS! I mean our ARMED FORCES! He LOVES our LOSER ARMED FORCES!

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    4 days ago

    MAGAts shit on everybody, including and sometimes especially on themselves.

    Is another wave of cheap Harleys coming? Only Time . . . will tell.

  • MetalMachine@feddit.nl
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    4 days ago

    “You’re going to kill somebody” yeah sure, I may be bombing innocent civilians, maybe women and children but thats not the point. Their lives are cheap, our lives arent.

  • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    4 days ago

    Lol at military pilots worrying they might one day have to face return fire. Get fucked, baby killers.