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"Be relentlessly lethal" reeks of that Hegsethian toxicbro jingoism that probably resonated with Charles Bradford Cooper II, Trump's pick to lead CENTCOM, when he gave that instruction to soldiers at the start of the #IranWar.

There are reasons serious military forces don't debase themselves in this way. My Lai and Abu Ghraib, to name two.

#NamingNames

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As you're reading through this.. remember this one single fact:

- Performative cruelty is ALWAYS THE POINT WITH THESE ASSHOLES

"Dismantling the fledgling harm-reduction effort, defense analysts say, is among several ways the Trump administration has reorganized national security around two principles: more aggression, less accountability."

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-defense-department-iran-hegseth-civilian-casualties

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So just like the pandemic preparations!

@ProPublica we shouldn’t bomb civilians for moral reasons but even just for utilitarian purposes, lessons from past wars taught the military that they still depended on the good graces of locals to maintain victory, and there was no worse way to guarantee continued resistance than indiscriminate bombing. Absolute buffoons

@ProPublica Horrifying!

“We’re departing from the rules and norms that we’ve tried to establish as a global community since at least World War II,” Bryant said. “There’s zero accountability.”

@ProPublica I wish I could truly believe in heaven and hell; cause I sure want this administration to go there. They are evil, all of them and those enabling them.

@ProPublica for those struggling to understand the logic behind these actions taken by this regime, it is important to remember that their goal is to destabilize things and make people suffer.