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It’s so wild that they are very demanding of touchpoints up front but totally clueless about everything throughout the chat…
They waited till he entered his girlfriends apartment building?... seems on point for the military. How many people died? I think someone said 53? And was that guy the only target? So many deaths for one dickhead...
Isn't that a war crime? No wonder so many people hate the US.
Good thing the US doesn't recognize the authority of the International Criminal Court, so there's no risk of them having to face consequences for their war crimes.
They even have a law that makes it illegal to cooperate with the ICC in bringing US personnel to justice, and that allows the president to use any force necessary to prevent it from happening.
And their praying for the killers of so many innocent.
More risk to the US personnel or assets, and it would be a diplomatic and domestic incident if it came out that US troops or assets were operating in Yemen. It's much safer to bomb them from a plane.
Also there's the terror aspect where the US government presumably wants to cause chaos and fear explicitly to make continuing the blockade less appealing to both the Houthis and the people of Yemen.
So strange that no one is talking about this aspect of it.
Like I'm no war expert (obviously neither are they), but wouldn't it cause far fewer causalities, and be far cheaper and easier, to just hide in the bushes and shoot the guy when he comes out? Since they know exactly where he is?
1 death vs 53, 1 bullet vs whatever TF it takes to level a building?
I think you meant attack expert, no war plan information was shared...
/s
You're going to need a team of people, fly them in and out and make sure they get back home alive or it might hurt the president's polls. It might be cheaper but it's much riskier. Nobody in the US cares about those 52 other people so that doesn't really matter to them.
I'm surprised they didn't use drones.
Why kill one when you can kill a bunch. Rack it up to collateral damage then go have a beer at the bar. Maybe leak some more texts before your Telsa test drive.
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Not sure about legality, and not that the US military care, but confirming someone id, and that he is visiting a gf or family member, then bombing the house, sound like a war crime.
They will pay no penalties for this. Trump deserves to be hanged for treason but that hasn't happened yet.
It's okay when the US does it.
I'm sure USians would be perfectly normal and react calmly and rationally if a foreign power killed 50 innocent people while assassinating a target on US soil.
It is a crime and Israel is doing it too so Trump and the whole clown car just follows the lead. I am all for killing people who have done heinous shit but killing everybody in whole build just to get tom them is beyond fucked up.
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We actually have munitions that don't blow up too. We could literally have killed just him. This isn't 20 years ago anymore.
We are currently clean on OPSEC
While actively leaking information lmao
This is becoming a theme stretching back multiple administrations. The people at the top either don't understand IT acceptable use policies, cybersecurity controls, classification divisions of systems, records retention policies, etc; or they are intentionally ignoring them. And for bonus points, everyone at this level is an espionage target.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controversy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_email_controversy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_government_group_chat_leak
They're ignoring them. Acceptable use policies are annoying and they're too powerful to follow the rules.
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if this were any other regime, they'd be facing jail time for using a non-approved messaging app. But this is the year of the trumptard, so they will face no consequences.
Whiskeyleaks going absolutely ham over here lmfao
Whiskey leaks is a hilar6name for this snafu. God I hate this timeline so much.
I was expecting truly stupendous levels of stupidity, and my expectations continue to be blown the fuck away on a more or less daily basis.
That thumbnail makes Trump look like Gary Busey with his mouth closed. Although, I'm sure that would be an insult to Gary.
Dude literally looks like the bad guy's top henchman that dies super easily after meeting the main character.
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