There are drone operators, recording themselves commit warcrimes in 1080p then posting it online for both Psyop propaganda and bragging points.
I’m talking, charging unarmed and even surrendered enemy combatants, and killing them with drones utilizing grenades with a >200m kill radius, from a kushy-safe distance.
War Crime.
Rules of engagement aren’t necessary with Total War, Rules are just that, fancy formal civility guidelines, when it comes to total war. All is fair.
But we should slow the fuck down on drone abuse, because the options are clear- and we’re pushing further and further into total war with each war crime straying further and further from civility.
Options;
- You use drones to maim and affect the supply line, leads to attrition and medical expenditures and invalids. Logical.
- You use drones to make people surrender, thus seizing their assets and having more prisoners of war as bargaining chips in negotiations. Also logical.
- Instead, You wage total war using drones strapped with detachable Improvise Explosives to kill people, not collect their bodies, and no room for negotiations. This isn’t building either a negotiation or war of attrition case. This is straight up total war. The equivalent rule of engagement would be Red Hot – extreme prejudice.
It’s already bad enough we have drone strikes from aerial blips 1,500km in the air, now we got buzzing RC cars strapped with explosives making people have PTSD anytime a mosquito comes near them. Yes, we’re resorting to option 3 from a lot of the footage leaked online.
I’ve seen some shitty stuff since the early 2000’s and liveleak.
And this new Drone shit, is just awful.
“Mercifully” killing him and committing a war crime. You could, you know, not kill him.
That’s the funny thing about these war crimes. You’re in a relatively safe distance and with plenty of time to think about things. You could easily, you know, not commit a war crime. It’s really that fucking easy. You could be like “you know, I’m just gonna go ahead and not commit a war crime”. It’s easy as breathing.
It’s even a weirder flex to commit a warcrime, video tape it, and then act as if you’re being moral by allowing them to smoke a cig as you post it online for ‘points’ or some made up shit after people see that you’ve committed a war crime.
Drones should be preliminarily banned as a war crime.
It’s inhumane, and these operators aren’t even accepting a surrender. War crimes.
We should go back to fighting with swords, that way we can see the death of the enemy in our hands and eyes and make us think twice about the intimacy of a kill. Give us pause to reconsider and reflect.
Also, we should send our generals and politicians to the front lines, they can’t return unless they get a kill. Per operation that they sign into effect.
Oh, you worried about the mortality rates of the front lines? Well, maybe we ought to do something about that instead of sending more and more people to their deaths?
The average general and politician.
At a bare minimum, the Generals and Politicians who warranted or signed off on authorizations should stand trial for the war crimes committed under their supervision. Bare minimum.
Side note
What stage of modern warfare do we have when Crowdsourced bombings are a thing? Like a GoFundme campaign to sign your name on a warhead like a politician, except as a normal plebe?
I guess now you can do it via donation online. Instead of having to get sand in yer boots.
Additionally, if you follow any of the things going on in Israel and Palestine, it’s clear that there are war crimes galore happening there.
I’m talking about starving populations being bombed, school busses, schools, children’s hospitals, etc. War Crimes.
So many war crimes, it’s basically de-facto that anyone with a brain can point to one side and be like ‘those are the bad guys’. But I’ll let you do that digging, and let you notice things for yourself.
In Closing
Drone Warfare should be pre-emptively banned as a war crime.
The people who are caught posting their war crimes online should be tried under a military tribunal and an international one at that.
We can’t have the standard be ‘go commit all the war crimes and then when the war is over we’ll stand trial’. That’s just a stupid standard. That basically allows war crimes.
All of this futuristic warfare happening, is subject to happen to both civilian and military forces. We’re not that far off from having these tools be used by, for, or against us.
And judging by the vast amount of videos I’m seeing.
There really isn’t an international rule of law when it comes to war.
Because the amount of war crimes known and unknown exceeds the amount of trials for said war crimes by a disproportionate amount, has me believe both rules of engagement and any sort of ‘rules’ are made up and not substantiated by enforcement practices.
If there is no rule of law for warfare on the international stage, then arguably there is no law. But you’d have to talk to some law philosophers about that one.
It’s almost like,
No Lives Matter
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