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“Should we follow the Geneva Conventions?” Pete Hegseth asked in 2024.

It’s almost as if there were signs!

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We never got an answer. Only more war. More casualties. And no victory. Should we follow the Geneva Conventions? What if we treated the enemy the way they treated us? Would that not be an incentive for the other side to reconsider their barbarism? Hey, Al Qaeda: If you surrender, we might spare your life. If you do not, we will rip your arms off and feed them to hogs. Makes me wonder, in 2024—if you want to win—how can anyone write universal rules about killing other people in open conflict? Especially against enemies who fight like savages, disregarding human life in every single instance. Maybe, instead, we are just fighting with one hand behind our back—and the enemy knows it. This is a big reason there hasn't been a war
November 29, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Eh, I find this to be a distinction without difference. One does not need to have a formal declaration of war to commit war crimes. The rhetoric from this administration is plenty bellicose as well.
November 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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A ha
brandonfriedman.bsky.social Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d
In other words, Hegseth was outed as a war criminal by a fellow Iraq vet who got the story from presumably high-level military officials inside the Pentagon. In case you were wondering how the military feels about him.

Hegseth should know that he can't trust anyone around him in that building.
November 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM