• DandomRude@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Here, too, the sheer ridiculousness of the regime once again obscures its criminal intentions.

    Statements such as these are then completely ignored:

    We also don’t fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement, just common sense, maximum lethality and authority for warfighters.

    Pete Hegseth Source

    This obviously means that all moral conventions, humanitarian principles, and international agreements are being thrown overboard—in other words, absolute ruthlessness, Israel-style.

    This is the face of America today: a grotesque grimace of fascist malice.

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      5 months ago

      Jesus Christ that’s grim and inhuman shit. “Stupid rules of engagement”?? Stupid things like reducing civilian casualties and not turning the populace against you? This is how empires fall.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Exactly… I feel like I’m the only one who paid attention to what they actually said, rather than just mocking the spectacle.

      He literally said that the US cities will be their “training ground”.