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What happens when they do it to our troops 🤦🏽‍♂️

And not a good one at that

Rules of engagement exist exclusively toensure the person the military is killing is someone they want to kill. The only reason to discard them is if you want to kill everyone.

What the actual fvck??

Did Bibi write that speech?

And not the "good" version

What.An.Absolute.Clown. Childishly desperate to play the tough guy.

We the people are their enemy

Forces from other signatories are still bound by the Convention and any member of the ICC can arrest those charged with war crimes. This only has a wider impact if it causes others to throw aside the convention and allow atrocities like we have seen in Bucha and Gaza.

The poor man's Wilhelm Keitel

Pete: Our goal is to act like the German army in WW2.

I am all for the military standing up against Trump and Pete here but lets not kid ourselves, the US follow rules of war when its necessary for the optics. Behind closed doors they break them REGULARLY, no matter which party the sitting president is a member of. Warcrimes are always committed

Save this for his Nuremberg trials!

Oh, he most def knows what he's talking about. It's a direct preparation to demand a shoot to kill order for when US military are deployed into all US cities.

Telling a room full of careers, no bullshit, military generals that the "rules of engagement" are stupid is something I'll remember forever. 10/10. Democrats couldn't do worse to Hegeseth if they tried.

Fellas, is it gay to have rules of engagement?

Just step down, go get drunk and then to church, Hypocritical War Monger.

Presumably applies to Russian and Israeli troops as well, so their actions are OK?

Bone chilling, and from a ridiculous person.

One thing is clear -- Hegseth must have a poster of the late and former Lt. John Calley on the wall . . .

You mean those pesky rules under the Geneva Convention?

Save your records Pete. There will be accountability.

You're free to make as many mistakes as possible, if you get a funny feeling, just shoot or blow people up. We can cover it up, if it turns out to be some innocent souls. War crimes don't exist anymore.

Illiterate idiot thinks authoritarian regimes fair well in war. Though I would be much more cautious not to piss off a democracy. Democracies tend to be more efficient, more ressourceful and more brutal when it comes to killing their ennemies.

The US has taken a very long time so far staying away from the idea of being subject to international law administered by the ICC, under many administrations so I can’t see that changing anytime, let alone soon!

The fishermen are duly afraid, you evil ghoul.

We already do in the US with the foster, prison & immigration systems.

Greenland/Denmark?

Alcoholic loser

“Civilian fishermen? No more of your gay little rules of engagement, we blow em up.”

Shouldn’t’ that drunk prick have to go in rehab?

How could you even accept us military on your own base if you know they will be immune against any rape charges or other criminal behaviors in the name of the warrior ethos? 2/2

He just jizzed in his pants didn’t he?

Repulsive

I think the 25th Amendment has to be done by Trump's cabinet.

Sounds like he’s pining for the good ol’ My Lai days.

This drunk does not belong anywhere near our military.

This administration keeps getting more and more disturbing… What is this circus really about? What are these assholes plotting?

What a total moron.

Russia's atrocities notwithstanding (you are absolutely correct there), I think that there have been many cases over the last 200 years of US POWs being treated better than would otherwise be expected because of our reputation for how enemy combatants were treated. Also yes to your second point.

Exactly! 😕

Takes my breath away dear god

It honestly gives me hope that when push comes to shove, the military may actually fight back, rather than comply with fascistic orders

But it's all about The Performance for these dangerous idiots.

But Pete wanted to hear that thunderous applause at the end of his speech.

"I'm sick of politically correct nonsense like you can't airstrike a day care, or torture isn't cool. MAXIMUM LETHALITY" Fucking insanity

Any who resign over the treasonous nature of his speech will be just a treasonous fo abandoning their duty.

Pretty sure that is his hope.

Read hegseth’s words. Then read them again. trump declared war on liberal cities, on Dems, on anyone who opposes his banana republic and this is how the American military is supposed to fight the “enemy from within.”

Oh my f-ing God!

Pussy Ass Bitch says what??

Has he any idea what he's talking about?

He’s a military “expert” equivalent to RFKjr, the heroin addict and medical “expert “, who seeks to kill millions of children with his bluster and bravado. Clownbags. Absolute clownbags.

Yes. And those who don’t/won’t will be replaced. After they’ve been publicly executed.

Basically, if I can paraphrase, he is saying disregard ethics and the rules of war and just kill people indiscriminately!

He's talking about us, people. They didn't spend the last months/years painting Dems and progressives as 'enemies of the people for nothing, this is their moment.

The Geneva Convention is now “woke”.

Welcome to the new Department of War Crimes.

Bringing back rape, pillage and plunder!

I just can’t…

Bye Geneva Convention!

That goes without saying

Okay, Hegseth is not a social drinker; he is clearly alcoholic.

Why did he model his presentation style on “The Wolf of Wall Street”?

Or TOWARD our military when they are captured.

What an utter idiot.

This is unhinged.

Another book that won't see the inside of his Presidential Library. 🤬

“The enemy” is anyone who isn’t 100% subservient to our god emperor, DonOld of apes-o-lago.

Yes. I’m in southern Illinois, far from Chicago but in redneck country. I’d love to leave, kind of hard though. I don’t think people fully comprehend what’s going on, even the people that really enjoy it. They will hear and see what they want.

Yup, I feel like Poland in the mid 1930s, watching all of the shit going down in Germany.

Yeah they have “Crusade Doctrine” plans to invade Canada and Greenland by force so it’s definitely being prepared.

In the better timeline, they all stormed the stage to remove this clear enemy of the country.

It all about the cruelty and no rule of law. Like Russia.

“Stupid Rules of Engagement.” An actual adult said that.

Everyone who isn’t MAGA.

He needs to resign

The Republican Party is nothing but sadists

We don't even know for sure if they were Venezuelans on those boats. They could have been human traffickers or fishermen.There's no evidence, other than the video of their execution.

Calley and teams that did the My Lai massacre had no(ignored) RoE. Hegseth's ignorance is obscene.

No more of that pesky Geneva Convention nonsense. Unless, of course, the war crimes are committed against our troops.

Hegseth didn’t mention torture. Probably just forgot???

Does it apply to civil wars?

That’s one of the weakest statements I have ever heard.

Yeah, bragging about committing war crimes, and then making continued threats on Canada’s sovereignty is very not smart.

Yes. “The enemy is everywhere and we must crush them completely before they come after us. This is a national security crisis and it will not be lifted until the US has no more enemies, real or imagined, anywhere.”

This is truly outrageous a d NOT America!

He sounds like the dumbest kids you went to high school with just talking shit at the end of the towny bar. Unfathomable this guy could have any power at all, let alone this.

Geneva Conventions = woke. Got it! (Fun fact: US and Israel have never ratified Protocols I and II to the Conventions presumably because it would provide humanitarian protections to armed Palestinians.)

Department of War (Crimes)

The ones that will stay employed.