Tootfinder

Seaman Retention

Bragging about an overt triple murder.
The sailors involved and their whole chain of command followed grossly illegal orders to murder three civilian Venezuelans who posed no serious threat to anyone.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social)
⚠️ Trump says the US attacked what he claims was drug-trafficking boat from Venezuela in international waters:

Individual sailors and soldiers who destroyed boat Tuesday may have committed war crimes.
"'…zero evidence of self-defense…Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea,' according to Adam Isacson, director for defense oversight at…Washington Office on Latin America. 'Even if…drugs aboard…not a capital offense.'"
Lethal force against civilians in international waters 'is a war crime if not in self-defense,” according to Isacson."

Was Trump’s Venezuelan boat attack a ‘war crime’? Experts say extrajudicial killings violate international law
Attack raises serious questions about president’s legal authority for lethal strikes against suspected drug traffickers

One Navy secretary and his allies in Congress fought to build more littoral combat ships even as they broke down at sea and their weapons systems failed. The Navy wound up with more ships than it wanted, at an estimated lifetime cost that could reach $100 billion or more.
The Navy’s haste to deliver ships took precedence over combat ability. Without functioning weapons systems the vessels are like a “box floating in the ocean,” one former officer said.
Sailors and officers complain…

The Inside Story of How the Navy Spent Billions on the “Little Crappy Ship”
Littoral combat ships were supposed to launch the Navy into the future. Instead they broke down across the globe and many of their weapons never worked. Now the Navy is getting rid of them. One is less than five years old.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalMixtape
Henry Wood, BBC Concert Orchestra & Barry Wordsworth:
🎵 Jack's the lad [Sailors' hornpipe] (Fantasia on British Sea Songs)
#HenryWood #BBCConcertOrchestra #BarryWordsworth