RIP Ambassador Alexander Nikitich Darchiev. A great diplomat who served country and the cause of peace with honor and distinction. I had the honor and privilege of getting to know him, albeit too briefly. He was at the frontline of the struggle to improve US-Russian relations. My deepest sympathies and condolences to his colleagues at @RusEmbUSA and @mfa_russia . He will be greatly missed, but never forgotten.
Hegseth’s actions are cognizable under the 1996 War Crimes Act.
He has directed US forces in actions which constitute grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions resulting in the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians.
Under the War Crimes Act, such offenses warrant the death penalty.
Americans operate under the broad notion that there is no jurisdiction capable of holding Americans to account other than our own, noting that the rule of law grounded in the principles and values of our Constitution are sufficient when it comes to violations of the law.
But such sentiments are meaningless if our Congress passes laws which people like Pete Hegseth can violate with impunity.
What’s shocking is that people like yourself, who have taken an oath to uphold and defend this very same Constitution, instead debase this foundational document by engaging in hero worship that has devolved into a cult of personality.
Your inability to grasp the principles that are at stake here, when repeated at the hands of your fellow cultists, is a manifestation of the erosion of basic civic comprehension that is the root cause for the demise of the Constitutional Republic our founding fathers created.
@JSWindsor19@omgsidewalks The government prints money. The government really does not need our taxes. Taxes are just a mechanism of government control. The legality of taxation is also highly questionable.
@marklevinshow Dan was “there”, where it counted.
You’re a stolen valor war tourist.
Arlington? Damn. Take fire?
You could have served, Levin.
You opted out.
Dan didn’t.
You might want to keep your yap shut when it comes to talking about the cost of war.
Because you have no idea.
Don’t blame Russia for the war in Ukraine – Scott Ritter.
The CIA has 20 bases in Ukraine compared to about 15 throughout the Vietnam War. The CIA wanted to strategically defeat Russia, sending them back to the 1990s, when democracy was weak under Yeltsin, people went hungry, and the economy was in tatters.
When Putin asked Biden to implement the Minsk agreement, the reply was that Blinken secretly sent weapons to Kiev. In September 2021.
Putin tried several times to negotiate peace but was rejected every single time.
Don’t blame Russia for the war; blame Biden’s inability to rein in the CIA.
@marklevinshow Perfect sense.
Israel receives a handout.
We would be returning to Iran money we illegally seized.
We have frozen some $100-120 billion in Iranian assets.
Returning $8 billion is a good start.