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[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 217 points 1 month ago (78 children)
[–] SammyJK@programming.dev 101 points 1 month ago (4 children)

What the actual fuck? The US has turned into a parody of itself. It's sad to see.

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It is my first belief that this is the point.

And Putin is quite happy.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yes, Putin probably enjoys this, but this is not trump alone. He has the support of the whole republican party, or at least 95% of it.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

He has support of the US. They voted for him and for his 'opposition' of cowards that can do nothing but watch cry crocodile tears.

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 14 points 1 month ago

This is who we always were. Real time media for events out of sight and earshot is relatively new. And that's partly why they want to heavily censor and spy on us.

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 80 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (28 children)

The americans knew the ship was coming for a military exercise without ammunition, they couldn't just seize it and captured everyone and got the ship? I'm missing something?

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 86 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They could've done that with Venezuela's "drug boats" too but didn't. That's because the goal was actually to kill people.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago

That's because the goal was actually to kill brown people.

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[–] Infinite@lemmy.zip 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You assume they wanted the ship or prisoners more than the death and suffering

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[–] d33pblu3g3n3@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

Terrorists want blood.

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 month ago

That's not what bullies and war criminals usually do mate.

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[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 70 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Fun fact: they were unarmed

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago (5 children)

It's weird how the US is turning into everything it fought against. Was fun while it lasted.

[–] dazzlingclitgame@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Did we fight against it or did we hide our war crimes better?

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 9 points 1 month ago

There's a reason at least half the world despises the US

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[–] cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is the US and it always has been. The current administration is just stupider than previous ones. They don’t realize that hiding US war crimes served a purpose. They think bragging about their depravity will halt American decline. In reality, it will do the opposite as people like you lose faith in the inherent virtue of the American project.

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can we stop inventing fake shit please? The US has never been a force against evil except for that one time 80 years ago.

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[–] BC_viper@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This is just the start. The old world broke once russia invaded Ukraine and we did nothing. Now other countries have realized that the world wont do anything if they also attack. Expansion has once again started. I expect Taiwan to be finished by summer too.

[–] AMoralNihilist@feddit.uk 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The old world broke when the US and UK invaded Iraq illegally in 2003. This is the natural consequence of that. If the people claiming to uphold them don't follow the rules because they are strong enough, then if we are strong enough we can do anything we want.

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

I get this vibe that no one knows what’s going on anymore and everything is just running on the fumes of the zeitgeist and conspiracy theories.

I find the fact that the whole world “knows” that China will invade Taiwan in 2027 to be really strange. And this has been the case for years. It feels like certain groups are taking it as a foregone conclusion.

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[–] cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

What old world? The US committing war crimes is par for the course. This is the same kind of shit the US did in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, and more. The cruelty is the point. The difference now is that the current administration is too stupid to lie about it.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's in the same category as the Highway of Death, where it's not technically a war crime, but it's close enough to one that you get the feeling that it should be.

It's a moot point anyway, as even if the girls school bombing and any other reported attacks on civilian targets were completely accidental and unintentional, the following two crimes would still have been committed by the Amero-Israeli politicians and brass:

  1. Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of a crime against peace
  2. Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace

Rudolph Hess was found guilty of the above two crimes (but not to war crimes or crimes against humanity) at Nuremberg and sentenced to life in prison. War crimes and crimes against humanity are very provable against a lot of the Israeli brass and political elite, as well as the American political elite, and those crimes were often met with a sentence of execution.

It's very unlikely that we'll get a Nuremburg out of this whole thing, but the legal precedent is quite clear.

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So we blew up a ship because it belonged to the wrong country and not because it was a threat?

It sure sounds like our country is at war with their country. Good thing my super trustworthy government got out ahead of that one and told us it's not a war.

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

no, you see... they are at war with us but we are just pre-empting their threats. Like.... have you seen the way these people stared at us? They clearly hated us for some reason. And you know how dangerous people are when they are that full of hatred

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago (9 children)

... Add yet another warcrime to the list...

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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

The US desperately needs to change the regime, because otherwise they know the same will happen to their oil tankers eventually.

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