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[Thumpalumpacus]

Canada has joined a major European Union defense fund, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office said Monday, as the country looks to diversify its military spending away from the United States.

https://apnews.com/article/canada-eu-def...2dc8152c59

This is what happens when you show yourself an untrustworthy ally.

[Deesse23]

Very well, Canadistan is close to EU latitude(s) anyway. 

[Thumpalumpacus]

ASHLAND, Va. (AP) — The masked burglar broke into the closed Virginia liquor store early on Saturday and hit the bottom shelf, where the scotch and whisky were stored. The bandit was something of a nocturnal menace: bottles were smashed, a ceiling tile collapsed and alcohol pooled on the floor.

The suspect acted like an animal because, in fact, he’s a raccoon.

On Saturday morning, an employee at the Ashland, Virginia-area liquor store found the trash panda passed out on the bathroom floor at the end of his drunken escapade.

“I personally like raccoons,” said Samantha Martin, an officer who works at the local animal control. “They are funny little critters. He fell through one of the ceiling tiles and went on a full-blown rampage, drinking everything.”

Martin said she took the raccoon back to the animal shelter, though she had her fair share of giggles along the way.

“Another day in the life of an animal control officer, I guess,” she said.

The Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter commended Martin for handling the break-in, and confirmed the raccoon had sobered up.

“After a few hours of sleep and zero signs of injury (other than maybe a hangover and poor life choices), he was safely released back to the wild, hopefully having learned that breaking and entering is not the answer,” the agency said.

https://apnews.com/article/drunk-raccoon...3798689fd0

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^I see two scenarios.

1) The raccoon in question had just graduated from raccoon high school and was celebrating with his dirt bag buddies who abandoned him when he passed out.

2) The raccoon had been sober for years. When his business went bankrupt and his wife left him (and got his collection of vintage baseball cards in the divorce), he relapsed.

Boru

[Thumpalumpacus]

Newsmax senior judicial analyst former Judge Andrew Napolitano said Tuesday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should face trial over war crime allegations, after reports surfaced he directed the military to “kill everybody” during a strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean.

“It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say, because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News,” Napolitano said during an appearance on the Newsmax’s “National Report” show. “This is an act of a war crime — ordering survivors who the law requires be rescued instead to be murdered, there’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”

“Everybody along the line who did it, from the secretary of Defense to the admiral to the people who actually pulled the trigger should be prosecuted for a war crime, for killing these two people,” he added.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/56314...legations/

When such a conservative twatwaffle as Napolitano calls your actions a war crime, you're a goddamned war criminal.

[Paraselene]

Well, he is the self-proclaimed Secretary of War.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Newsmax senior judicial analyst former Judge Andrew Napolitano said Tuesday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should face trial over war crime allegations, after reports surfaced he directed the military to “kill everybody” during a strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean.

“It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say, because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News,” Napolitano said during an appearance on the Newsmax’s “National Report” show. “This is an act of a war crime — ordering survivors who the law requires be rescued instead to be murdered, there’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”

“Everybody along the line who did it, from the secretary of Defense to the admiral to the people who actually pulled the trigger should be prosecuted for a war crime, for killing these two people,” he added.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/56314...legations/

When such a conservative twatwaffle as Napolitano calls your actions a war crime, you're a goddamned war criminal.

You would think even an incompetent douchenozzle like Hegseth would be familiar with the term hors de combat and the legal implications thereof.

Boru

[Paraselene]

ASHLAND, Va. (AP) — The masked burglar broke into the closed Virginia liquor store early on Saturday and hit the bottom shelf, where the scotch and whisky were stored. The bandit was something of a nocturnal menace: bottles were smashed, a ceiling tile collapsed and alcohol pooled on the floor.

The suspect acted like an animal because, in fact, he’s a raccoon.

On Saturday morning, an employee at the Ashland, Virginia-area liquor store found the trash panda passed out on the bathroom floor at the end of his drunken escapade.

“I personally like raccoons,” said Samantha Martin, an officer who works at the local animal control. “They are funny little critters. He fell through one of the ceiling tiles and went on a full-blown rampage, drinking everything.”

Martin said she took the raccoon back to the animal shelter, though she had her fair share of giggles along the way.

“Another day in the life of an animal control officer, I guess,” she said.

The Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter commended Martin for handling the break-in, and confirmed the raccoon had sobered up.

“After a few hours of sleep and zero signs of injury (other than maybe a hangover and poor life choices), he was safely released back to the wild, hopefully having learned that breaking and entering is not the answer,” the agency said.

https://apnews.com/article/drunk-raccoon...3798689fd0

[Thumpalumpacus]

Well, he is the self-proclaimed SSecretary of War.

Let's not forget that second "s". It gives much better context.

[Thumpalumpacus]

You would think even an incompetent douchenozzle like Hegseth would be familiar with the term hors de combat and the legal implications thereof.

Boru

I know for a fact he is. American troops are given training in both the Geneva Convention and our UCMJ and Law of War Manual.

5.9 PERSONS PLACED HORS DE COMBAT
Persons, including combatants, placed hors de combat may not be made the object of
attack. Persons placed hors de combat include the following categories of persons, provided
they abstain from any hostile act and do not attempt to escape:
• persons in the power of an adverse party;
• persons not yet in custody, who have surrendered;
• persons who have been rendered unconscious or otherwise incapacitated by wounds,
sickness, or shipwreck; and
• persons parachuting from aircraft in distress.

5.9.1 Hors de Combat – Notes on Terminology. Hors de combat is a French phrase that
means “out of the battle.” It is generally used as a term of art to mean persons who may not be made the object of attack because they are out of the fighting and who therefore must be treated
humanely.

Hors de combat is used in Common Article 3 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions318 and has
been defined in Article 41 of AP I.319

Hegseth, having been a major in the Army, would certainly have received a more in-depth education on this than did I, and after Basic Training I had to take annual refresher courses -- and this was certainly covered for me, as a lowly sergeant.

This is not ignorance or stupidity. This is wanton criminality.