Wait so the guy with iron crosses and a drinking problem being in charge of war want alarming before. Got it.
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"An order to give no quarter would mean to take no prisoners and kill them instead. That would violate the law of armed conflict. It would be an illegal order. It would also put American service members at greater risk."
Bo such thing as illegal orders, according to mad dog helgseth
He probably doesn't even know what that means. But regardless of that. He's still a POS.
Look, you can’t force Jesus to come back by following the rules.
They're just play acting at being generals.
Kegsworth is a piece of shit, but I wouldn't be surprised if he honestly didn't know what "quarter" actually meant or even that it was a legally defined term under damn near every single military treaty.
They're not just evil, they're evil idiots.
Hopefully we live to see them have to argue for their own stupidity as a defense in a criminal war crime tribunal.
They’ll have ChatGPT argue it, I’m sure we can see the approximate output ahead of time.
If you're hitting the subscribe-wall: Archive link (using Wayback Machine).
LegalEagle put out a video (Alternate: Invidious instance or selector) recently covering the "no quarter" comment, missile strike on Minab school, and sinking of the IRIS Dena. Their thumbnails can be a little clickbait-face-ish for my liking but the content is good and they cite their sources well.
Second the Legal Eagle video on this
It alarms me, and I’m but a poor layman.