from the you’ll-have-to-kill-without-us dept
This received’t matter to Donald Trump or the handfuls of administration officers who dwell to please him. In all chance, it would simply result in Trump and his administration smearing one among this nation’s allies for being weak on crime and too supportive of people who find themselves being murdered by the US authorities.
However it ought to matter to everybody else. The US was as soon as the chief of the free world, even with all of its present and historic flaws. It’s now not concerned with any model of “freedom” that doesn’t contain making individuals really feel it’s alright to interact in open bigotry. And it now not deserves to be referred to as the “chief” of something, because it’s within the means of devolving into an authoritarian state with white Christian nationalist wishes.
The mass deportation program that has been working at full velocity since Trump retook the Oval Workplace has been abjectly and objectively depressing. Irrational hatred is now simply public coverage, overseen by grinning “Village of the Damned”-esque children with swastikas pinwheeling of their creepy, lifeless eyes.
Not the UK has been a lot better for many of its historical past. It spent plenty of its historical past partaking in open racism and bigotry-as-public-policy colonialism. Even now, its need to be extra dangerous to immigrants, privateness rights, and something not fully Union Jacked has seen it devolve in the identical course the US is now headed, albeit with a bit extra inner division.
However Trump has gone to this point that not even this new wave of UK Exceptionalism is keen to endorse it. Positive, it’s keen to be terrible in the direction of its personal populace repeatedly, nevertheless it’s not precisely prepared to join an eventual look at The Hague. Right here’s Natasha Bertrand, reporting on a sudden severing of surveillance entry by the UK authorities in response to the administration’s killings of individuals in worldwide waters.
The UK is now not sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels within the Caribbean as a result of it doesn’t wish to be complicit in US navy strikes and believes the assaults are unlawful, sources aware of the matter advised CNN.
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[S]hortly after the US started launching deadly strikes in opposition to the boats in September, nevertheless, the UK grew involved that the US may use intelligence supplied by the British to pick out targets. British officers imagine the US navy strikes, which have killed 76 individuals, violate worldwide regulation, the sources stated. The intelligence pause started over a month in the past, they stated.
The UK authorities did the suitable factor. Even when some within the UK authorities is likely to be aligned with Trump by way of going full Duterte, there’s no cause to proceed to behave as an confederate within the extrajudicial killings. Even when the political winds fail to shift in the US on the finish of Trump’s second time period, the person who has spent his total presidential profession antagonizing a lot of the remainder of the world has made sufficient enemies that he received’t have many supporters if an internationally-backed prosecution try arises sooner or later.
Even navy officers are beginning to again away from the boat strike program, even because the Trump-beholden DOJ Workplace of Authorized Counsel continues to concern questionable memos that declare “this all very authorized, truly.” It definitely doesn’t look authorized, which creates some issues within the court docket of public opinion. In courts that really have the ability to do one thing about it, these outrageous claims of absolute govt energy have already worn skinny.
As for the official US response, it’s restricted to this for the second:
The British embassy in Washington and the White Home didn’t reply to requests for remark. A Pentagon official advised CNN that the division “doesn’t discuss intelligence issues.”
LMAO. The Protection Division talks about “intelligence issues” in chats which have included journalists, relations, and household legal professionals. And Trump himself has unilaterally (and really unofficially) declassified intelligence info by splattering it everywhere in the pages of TruthSocial and X. All that’s being stated right here is that the federal government received’t discuss issues it doesn’t wish to talk about, proper up till an administration official (or Trump himself) decides it’s time to get bitchy about this regime being handled just like the untrustworthy piece of shit it’s.
That may most likely occur sooner, fairly than later. Because the CNN report notes, each Canada and Colombia have carried out the identical factor, stopping the US navy from utilizing intelligence these international locations have collected to focus on individuals in boats in worldwide waters. Make America A Pariah Once more goes simply nice.
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