Another problem is if he accepts a result consistant with intl law, he will very likely lose power & maybe his life.
If Russia is routed militarily, Putin has an excape, but Ukraine is not ready yet. European & Canadian support will help, but it takes time.

Maybe Hegseth should face a firing squad. For his blatently illegal crimes against humanity, as a member of the military.
That would send a clear message to all concerned.

Tod says it best, by quoting an actual story where Franklin discovers why exclusion is wrong, a lesson he says the Trump administration has never learned.
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Not surprising that some Republicans are starting to speak up against Trump adminstration illegal excesses

The irony of these trials is that it excluded the Russian collaborators (including Stalin) who started WW2 with the Nazis by dividing Poland between them, with Russian atrocities against surrendering Polish soldiers. (Worse than what the Nazis did.)

Putin : "no competant " doctor would throw a genade in an operating room. Not one.

…scared to do their jobs, they should step down. Why don’t they understand that there’s safety in numbers? If they voted en masse to impeach Hegseth, they would be safer than going it alone. They could protest the murders in the Caribbean. Can’t do that? Then seriously just go back home.

must be able to PROVE to a military tribunal your orders were illegal. "I don't think it's right to shoot a speed boat because they might be unrelated civvies" with no proof at all?

You're getting 10-20y in prison, forfeiture of pay, reduction to E1 and a dishonourable discharge.

sent to prison for years. I mean, the last one would undermine the entire US military doctrine in the last 50+ years.
Sorry, if it isn't an unarmed child or extremely old person CLEARLY in your gun sights and you refuse, you're 99% going to prison no matter what people find out years later. You

Germany is still hunting down and bringing to trial elderly people who had any role whatsoever in the operation of the concentration or death camps.