Pasayten's Methow Valley Bulletin Board

Apparently Hegseth is onboard with Trump's disdain for international law.

"From the Daily Beast:
The Trump administration may have committed a war crime when it carried out strikes on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean last year.
The Pentagon used an aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane and carried its weaponry inside the fuselage rather than under its wings, The New York Times reported on Monday.
Legal experts say that could amount to the war crime of “perfidy,” which prohibits such tactics of disguise.
“Shielding your identity is an element of perfidy,” Retired Maj. Gen. Steven Lepper, a former judge advocate in the Air Force, told the Times. “If the aircraft flying above is not identifiable as a combatant aircraft, it should not be engaged in combatant activity.”

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“ Donald Trump has said ‘I don’t need international law” and that his power is limited only by his “own morality”.

In a new interview with the New York Times, Trump said the only constraint to his power as president of the US is “my own morality, my own mind”.

“It’s the only thing that can stop me,” Trump said, adding: “I’m not looking to hurt people.” He went on to concede “I do” in regards to whether his administration needed to adhere to international law, but said: “It depends on what your definition of international law is.”

Trump, who spoke to the newspaper as his administration looks into “a range of options” in attempts to gain control of Greenland, also emphasized the importance of ownership.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... tional-law
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