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In case anyone else doubted this, I will save you the time to look it up. Yup, it's sadly true. https://www.commondreams.org/news/hegseth-no-quarter-internatio

• lokar 6mo ago
  Yep. And war crime seems to have lost all meaning in the US. But, even if you dismiss the idea of international standards, this is clearly very bad for US soldiers (and sailors, airmen, etc). I wonder if they see that.
  • jMyles 6mo ago
    > But, even if you dismiss the idea of international standards, this is clearly very bad for US soldiers (and sailors, airmen, etc). I wonder if they see that. Even if you dismiss the idea of international standards, a no-quarter declaration is against _US law_, specifically subject to the penalty of death with no other lawful penalty defined: https://www.govregs.com/uscode/title18_partI_chapter118_section2441 https://www.govregs.com/uscode/title18_partI_chapter118_sect....