Even a GOP senator thinks JD Vance’s line on war crimes accusations is ‘despicable’

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/even-gop-senator-thinks-jd-vances-line-war-crimes-accusations-despicab-rcna229775

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  1. **From Steve Benen, producer for “The Rachel Maddow Show”:**  

    Last week, Donald Trump not only claimed that his administration had killed 11 suspected Venezuelan drug smugglers, he boasted about the military operation and released an apparent video showing the results of the airstrike.

    Were the 11 people on the boat actually members of the Tren de Aragua gang, as the president claimed? We don’t know. Were there actual drugs on the boat? We don’t know that, either. Was it legal for the Trump administration to use lethal force against a civilian boat in international waters? There’s reason to believe it was not.

    For one thing, I’m not aware of any Democratic officials anywhere who want to deploy American military personnel to engage in combat in Russia. (If the vice president can substantiate the claim, I’m all ears.) For another, we can protect Americans from drug smugglers without extrajudicial slayings.

    In case that weren’t quite enough, Brian Krassenstein, an anti-Trump social media influencer and podcaster, responded online that “killing the citizens of another nation who are civilians without any due process is called a war crime.”

    It was at that point when Vance replied, “I don’t give a s— what you call it.”

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  2. The thought that war crimes being justified as long as the STATE deems those people as “criminals” is hilarious from the group that kept complaining about “big government”. Oh suddenly we should trust you?

  3. Lmao it’s always the same 6 GOP party members that these headlines continently omit. It’s Rand Paul for those wondering, again. Absolutely nothing worth talking about in this piece. A stretch to call it geopolitics even.

    Edit: official MSNBC account too. Garbage spam.

  4. Did everyone already forgot Trump posted a clip where he bombed a Yemeni tribal gathering, most probably a wedding celebration – just earlier this year?

  5. It’s just Rand Paul again, this isn’t a surprise it’s expected

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