• Mirshe@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Trump did this last term too, we killed their intelligence chief when he landed for peace talks with Iraq.

    This is a war crime, BTW. Attacking someone under a perceived state of truce or ceasefire is called “perfidy”.

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      6 hours ago

      What did Trump say recently? Something like: “I have no need for international law. The only thing that can stop me is my own morality.” (Obviously, the wrong words, because he doesn’t speak that well, but the same meaning.) We all know what his morality is like. He’s OK with fucking little girls, and, possibly, killing them. The only morals he has is doing things to benefit himself.

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        11 hours ago

        I still remember 2017, when Donald decided to drop the MOAB on Afghanistan and Fareed Zakaria praised him effusively on CNN.

        Guess he learned the lesson.

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        11 hours ago

        I think the “beauty of our weapons” and “Trump became president today” was a different instance from the Soleimani killing.

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          6 hours ago

          There were multiple instances. I remember… I think it was Isikoff, asking “are you celebrating” or something to that effect. The only thing stopping universal praise was how scared people were it would start a war. That’s currently starting.

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            5 hours ago

            Hmm maybe, don’t know much about him personally(but probably do his work) I just remember TV media pundits, especially the so called anti Trump media pundits, having an orgasm on TV over bombing on Syria I think.

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              5 hours ago

              Oh, yeah, that one definitely happened. The minute it looked like Trump was gonna play ball on their plans for Syria, the entire foreign policy apparatus stopped giving a shit about anything else he did.

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      10 hours ago

      War crimes don’t mean anything. It is a cudgel the victor uses to do more damage after they win.

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        6 hours ago

        disagree. What Israel did to the palestinians has meaning and is legally defined globally as war crimes. I am not willing to say those laws and global agreements have no real meaning.

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          4 hours ago

          I hate to disagree, but laws and rules have no actual meaning if there isn’t an enforcement mechanism. Considering how long Israel and the US have been committing war crimes without even the lightest of punishment for those in charge, whatever enforcement is in place is obviously insufficient.