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If Americans were even prosecuted for war crimes that couchfucker would be scared.
The act gives the president power to use “all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court”.
In short, “If you try to prosecute our war criminals, we will invade The Netherlands.”
Calm down, Hitler.
No, I mean, really!
Your daily reminder that as a matter of fact, international law means pretty much nothing. It’s funny to me that people still keep bringing it up.
It never meant anything to the USA and other imperialists, it is regularly used to justify action against those outside the “international community”
The thing about justifications is that you can just make them up. There’s no international law against hypocrisy.
International law only springs into existence when it’s convenient for the “international community”
If that’s how you feel, then all laws mean pretty much nothing. The only reason any of it matters, is if we all agree to abide by them. Technically, anyone can commit any crime, at any time. The rest of us need to hold those people accountable, or as you said…none of it matters.
Laws aren’t a matter of public consensus (although public consensus is one way of determining what should be illegal). They’re meaningful if men with guns show up and use force against someone who breaks them.
They’re only meaningful if the rest of us allow that to happen.
“Sieg heil!”
“Saying that makes you a nazi.”
“I don’t give a shit what you call it.”
“sieg geil!”
“You sound like a nazi when you say that.”
“Well thank you”
It’s alright. He won’t be but a small blemish on the blotted history of the US
I dunno, he’s one of the more mocked figures in US politics. History will hopefully remember him well for couch debauchery
Strong JibJab vibes with this one. Oh, the nostalgia right before shit hit the fan with Dubya.
Bush was pretty bad too, huh. I don’t remember the dismantling of democracy, but he certainly laid the groundwork.
“You can’t say nuclear, that really scares me.”
Are you sure he’s not the successor to the throne after daddy is dead? It seems like many people would want him.
The problem they’re faced with is a drug epidemic and the solution they come up with is mass murder.
Obviously very sane and rational.
The US has always been this parasitic, lawless, warmongering shithole of a country. Bush did it, Obama did it, Biden did it, Trump did it. Every single president before them did it. As someone who despises the US hegemony, I’m glad this administration is showing the world what the US has always been. This will just make it easier for us across the globe to discredit the US lackeys in our individual countries.
Laughts on them. If the flow of cocaine would stop, politics and the rich would be hit the hardest.
You’ve made the mistake of thinking that this is about killing members of a drug cartel instead of killing people they decide to accuse of being members of a drug cartel
Whether those people on the boat were members of a cartel or not is not the point, it already is piracy and a war crime.
My point is that the stated ultimate goal is to fight drug cartels, and that would hit certain circles the hardest. Especially with cocaine, which is a drug predominantly used in richer circles.
I’m sure this kind of rhetoric will turn out to be super great for Americans abroad.
It’s like putting bullseye sheets on every back of them.
He’s just another version of trump.
A child trying to imitate trump maybe
You could make a very strong argument that a cartel member is a member of a militant group, they certainly use many of the same tactics
Prove it in court and put them in jail then.
You think you’re capturing these guys alive?
No, but it’s still the correct way to do it.
Cool you can serve the arrest warrant then
I think you’re missing the point there.
You can’t just eschew justice because cartels - but we both know they won’t come quietly.
You do the trial in absentia, then send a team to go ‘pick him up’ if he really does come quietly, he’ll go to prison, but we all know that’s not how it’ll go down.
Given the tactics cartels use to defend their turf and keep others in line, they’re one group of people I don’t really have an issue with being executed.
They’re worse than a lot of terrorist organisations.
You could make a very strong argument that the cartel is something for the country itself to deal with, or rely on help through organisations like INTERPOL and not just have the US decide it’s murder time for a random civillian they have no evidence on.
If you have a proper judicial process, some mistakes are caught. On the other hand, extra judicial killings have no recourse for mistakes.
Even the best processes and well intentioned humans make mistakes. Extra judicial process is a recipe for humanitarian disaster.
Unknown number of innocent people will be murdered in cold blood without remorse if such a policy is adopted.
I respect the sentiment, but there’s no way in hell these guys would surrender to law enforcement.
I agree, that’s why MAGA and the KKK should be executed in the stree- wait, is that not who we’re talking about? Oops, my bad.
I also support executing the Klan, yes.
And MAGA? Terrorists who attempted a coup and murder citizens are just as bad as the cartels, right?
i think you mean military instead of militant, any violent group is militant. So being militant is still a civilian thing and using the military against civilians is a war crime. Also using the military within your own borders is a crime. So no it’s not a “very strong argument” it’s not an argument at all
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_humanitarian_law
Fine, terrorist organisation then. They’re certainly not above killing civilians themselves.
They also do not care about war crimes in Gaza. Sick psychopaths.
James Donald Bowman is a sad sack of shit and the literal incarnation of his douchebag father.
He tries to escape his given name, but I won’t let him, I’ll deadname him until he (or myself) is dead.
If you replace JD Vance with Hitler, replace jd Vance’s profile with Hitler, they’re indistinguishable from each other
Did they kill the Sackler family?
Not brown or poor-looking enough, sadly.
The orange bloated bloviator is bad enough but to have that dark little strange monster hovering in the background seems somehow worse.
