“Let’s put an end to these sons of bitches.” This is how the President of the United States, Donald Trump, indicated the next stage for which he is preparing. “The numbers are down because we’re doing these attacks, and we’re going to start doing them on the ground as well,” Trump said. “On the ground, it’s a lot easier, we know everything, we know where they live. And we’re going to start doing that very soon as well, and then families will be able to live without fear that their son or daughter is going to take a pill for a little fun and end up dead within 60 seconds.”
“What Biden did to this country by allowing all these people, who I call animals, to come into our country and destroy it, allowing all those drugs to come in, allowing people to cross the border as if nothing happened,” Trump continued in a speech to the press during his Cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
Trump’s words come amid controversy over orders to eliminate survivors of alleged drug boat attacks, which put Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on target. Trump said: “I don’t have a lot of information yet, because I trust Pitt, but for me it was an attack, not one or two or three attacks. I didn’t know anything, and I wasn’t involved in it. But I can say this: I want to eliminate those ships, and if necessary, we will attack on land as well, just as we attacked at sea. They did an incredible job, and Pete did an incredible job.”
The fact is that controversy broke out after that The Washington Post will report On Friday, the Secretary of War issued the order to leave no survivors behind in the first attack on an alleged drug boat, on September 2. It got to the point that the US military launched a second attack to eliminate two survivors, which could be considered a war crime, because they should have provided assistance instead of more dynamite.
The law of the sea dictates that when a ship sinks on the high seas, there is a duty To save the survivors. This means that not only did they bomb a defenseless civilian boat, but once it was bombed, the attack continued until there were no survivors.
White House press secretary Carolyn Leavitt on Monday tried to explain what happened that day, three months ago, when a campaign of extrajudicial killings began that killed 83 people in 21 attacks. According to Levitt, who acknowledged that this second attack had occurred, “Terrorist groups designated by the President are subject to lethal attacks in accordance with the laws of war. With respect to the attacks in question, on September 2, Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley (Commander Central Command, US Central Command) to conduct these attacks. Admiral Bradley acted within his authority and the law governing combat to ensure the elimination of the ship and the threat to the United States.”
That is, the White House, in defending Hegseth, is putting the senior military leadership in the spotlight.
“How do you deal with Al-Qaeda and ISIS?” “Do you arrest them? Do you pat them on the head and say, ‘Don’t do that again?’ Or end the problem directly with a lethal approach? And that’s how President Trump has allowed the War Department to deal with these gangs. We know who’s up to what, what they’re doing, what they’re carrying. Now, in the first attacks, as any leader would do, you want to take that responsibility,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth asked at the Cabinet meeting. So I said that I would be the one to make the decision after I got all the information and was sure that it was the right attack on September 2. So I went to my next meeting, so I went to my next meeting in which the Commander made the decision that he had full authority to make, which was the right decision to sink the ship and eliminate the threat, and we are proud of that.
“Personally, I saw no survivors,” Hegseth said. “The ship was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what the press doesn’t understand. You are sitting in your air-conditioned offices on Capitol Hill, criticizing and spreading false stories in the Washington Post, with anonymous sources, without any basis, without any truth about American heroes. President Trump has empowered leaders to do whatever is necessary, dark and difficult things, on behalf of the American people. We support and we will stop the poisoning of Americans.” the people.”