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[–] Dholi@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Still waiting for a Western news source to call the US administration terrorists.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

It is funny because Trump talks so much shit about the press, but they got his back. It is pretty sad to watch, but we have known for decades that the independent press is a lie in the US.

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca -1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Just stop talking about Jeffrey Epstein and Trump please.

[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 272 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Fuck off calling it an “operation”

Yes, very Russian. It's America's own "special military operation".

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 134 points 1 week ago (18 children)

It is 100% an act of war, it's even a very obvious indisputable act of war. Yet we see European leaders refusing to call it so. 😡

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago

A war crime and a terrorist operation.

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[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 128 points 1 week ago (9 children)

If we manage to escape the trump dictatorship, every soldier involved needs to be court-martialed and sentenced for following illegal orders.

[–] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Nope. But it should.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 94 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This made me laugh. This is the same shit we've been doing for 100 years. "Illegal orders" aren't a thing when you use your imperial military to do imperialism. The last time we had a President that wasn't a war criminal was never.

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[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

FYI US soldiers involved in illegal orders in the USA are almost never court-martialed or even put on trial. The only one I can think of actually being convicted is the Mai Lai massacre way back in 1968. The US has become consistently more brazen in its flaunting of international law regarding war crimes and any policing of its armed forces through subsequent administrations since.

In fact its very rare for US troops or even military contractors brazenly ignoring orders and committing war crimes to even be put on trial, let alone be convicted. The most recent incident I can think of is the four Blackwater contractors during 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' that massacred 17 unarmed Iraqi civilians and injured 20 in Baghdad city. There was such overwhelming evidence in the case that they were convicted by a US court of murder (one member) and manslaughter (the other three) in 2014.

Even that was an unacceptable level of accountability for the Republicans, so Trump gave them all presidential pardons in his first term in 2020.

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[–] clot27@lemmy.zip 121 points 1 week ago (8 children)
[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 130 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Trump is everything bad about a psychopath, sociopath and narcissist.
Rolled up in what we call malignant narcissist. He has complete disregard for other people, and he has absolutely no conscience, and he expects to be worshiped.

Fuck Americans for making him president twice.

[–] H1AA6329S@lemmy.world 62 points 1 week ago

Just the way he spoke about watching it happening live and comparing it to a good TV show says a lot about his mental state.

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 93 points 1 week ago (4 children)

President of peace everyone 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[–] Natanael 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

FIFA peace price in shambles

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[–] filister@lemmy.world 77 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (22 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (10 children)
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[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 65 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump is still a pedophile. Don’t forget that. This is not a distraction from the Epstein files.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"But they're celebrating."

Yeah, if a foreign nation did a military operation and abducted Trump to face a trial for his crimes Americans would be in the streets celebrating.

But the celebration is going to be short when they realize their futures are now dictated by a felon rapist pedophile who's crashing his own nation's economy and violating his own citizen's rights.

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[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 55 points 1 week ago
[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago (86 children)

Americans are terrorists and it’s people are cowards for allowing this to go on

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[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Fuck America, let them suffer, make them burn, especially the current administration.

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (9 children)

This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.

[–] mang0@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 week ago (33 children)

The amount of people who voted republican completely obliterates the tiny fraction of people who abstained from voting democrat. How about directing focus where it's relevant?

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The amount of people who sat home on voting day outweighs both republican and democrat voters. Apathy won the last presidential election, just like every election in recent memory.

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[–] TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The US acts of war? Why does the news do this. We all know this isn't an "operation".

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 27 points 1 week ago (8 children)

the same NYT that dint bother reporting the attack, because they recieved the info days before it from the trump administration. NYT AND POST are cupable as well.

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[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This headline needs to change. 

US military murders 80 people an illegal raid on foreign soil.

[–] Dholi@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

US terrorists*

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