I mean, yeah. But so has every other defense secretary ever, so...
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He will. Period.
As opposed to every other US government in the history of US governments? Dont get me wrong it can always be worse, but still, odd headline. They literally have laws to make sure that nobody can touch their war criminals even if caught red handed.
They mean we won't even abide by our own laws anymore. While our political elite love to yeet the military all over the world, the rank and file has been largely subject to international laws of war while overseas.
Now they want the rank and file to have as much impunity as our political elite.
The US has it codified into law to invade The Hague if any US soldier is indicted by the UN.
What fucking scum is only concerned now? The US has been war criming with impunity my whole life and long before it.
Your official policy is to invade the fucking UN if a solder gets charged with a war crime. Who fucking cares if he pardons someone.
US Military: .... ? .... we commit war crimes?
I'd pretty much guarantee that "willing to turn a blind eye to U.S. war crimes" was a prerequisite as far as Trump and his handlers were concerned.
pretty sure the prerequisite was "willing to order warcrimes on US citizens."
As opposed to all other leaders of the second most moral army in the world? Fuck off with that shit.
Could? Turn a blind eye? He's being hired specifically to ENCOURAGE US, Israeli, Saudi, and Russian war crimes.
Some military officers worry that Pete Hegseth could turn a blind eye to U.S. war crimes
Of course he will! All of these appointees are hand-picked to dismantle the thing they're put in charge of.
The US response to Israel's actions in Gaza and the rest of the region should be a straightforward example of what the "Defender of Democracy" is okay with. I imagine war crimes will just be the tip of the spear.
Yeah, if anyone still believed that 'international law' and 'rules based world order' were real, the war in Gaza should prove that those laws only existed to enforce colonialism, and weren't ever meant to apply to the US or its allies.
Yeah, thats a real concern.
After all, the trials over the Bush administration legalizing Torture went on for so long and went a long way to helping the rest of the world trust the US.
He's a fucking drunkard that'll do nothing about anything.
He’s going to be too busy working under the resolute desk to notice anything.
I feel like he probably listed that as a proposed stance when he submitted his CV. For the circles he’s going to be working with: that’s a feature, not a bug.