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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    20 hours ago

    I’ve been staying very top level but suffice to say he cannot just yell martial law and charge into a blue city

    I want to believe you/this, but honestly laws only matter when they are enforced and so far, it looks like nobody wants to enforce them against the Orange Pedo, therefore, he is subject to no laws

    The court push back is important not because we think it will restrain Trump, but because the generals are not personally loyal to Trump

    What gives you this impression? I have yet to see even hesitancy from any General in following any order so far

    As a reminder, Trump wanted to shoot Americans in his first term. It was the establishment that told him no. He tried to directly order the military and a general literally yelled at him for it.

    Yes but this second term is something else, everybody fell in line and the idiot king has SCOTUS bought and paid for

    Everyone is worried about the military while our federal law enforcement is doing military style presence patrols in Los Angeles.

    Precisely