More than 80 people killed in campaign that law-of-war experts have labeled extrajudicial murder

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly gave a verbal order to leave no survivors behind as Donald Trump’s administration launched the first of more than a dozen attacks on alleged drug-running boats that have killed more than 80 people over the last three months.

On September 2, U.S. military personnel fired a missile striking a vessel in the Caribbean that carried 11 people accused of trafficking drugs into the United States.

When two survivors emerged from the wreckage, a Special Operations commander overseeing the attack ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions to “kill everybody,” according to The Washington Post, citing officials with direct knowledge of the operation.

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          Doesn’t mean they can’t issue a warrant, which would mean he can’t ever leave the US after he’s done being president.

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            Bro the US literally has enshrined a law that authorizes them to ‘legally’ invade the Hague if any of them are tried or captired.

            I wouldn’t hold my breath. The ICC was always an extension of US imperialism.

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              Bro the US literally has enshrined a law that authorizes them to ‘legally’ invade the Hague if any of them are tried or captired.

              Going to need a citation to the statute. Not that I don’t believe you, but I’d like to see where it is for a better understanding.

              The ICC was always an extension of US imperialism.

              X Doubt.

              But, even if that were true, the ICC has carried forth good actualizations of justice.