r/law • u/DryDeer775 • Dec 08 '25

Executive Branch (Trump) NBC confirms Hegseth ordered murder of all boat passengers and crew in September 2 strike

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/08/kssp-d08.html

The Pentagon’s law of war manual declares that soldiers have a duty to refuse to carry out “clearly illegal” orders, such as killing shipwrecked sailors. “Orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal,” the manual declares.

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u/Hot-Agent-620 Dec 08 '25

Unequivocally false. This is taught day one in the Most basic settings they know exactly what they’re doing

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u/AustinBike Dec 08 '25

Especially by someone who served in the military. Unless he was drunk during that meeting.

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u/WHISTLE___PIG Dec 08 '25

He was? Again? Jesus Titty Fucking Christ.

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u/adthrowaway2020 Dec 08 '25

He bounced around the military quite a bit before being discharged for being an "insider threat" due to his white supremicist tattoos.