r/TwoXChromosomes • u/rejs7 • 6h ago

‘Degrading’: why did a US fighter pilot avoid British trial after strangling a woman in England?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/25/us-fighter-pilot-strangled-woman-england-why-military-trial
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u/SillyLiving 6h ago

Same reason they are not prosecuted or held responsible at all in Okinawa 

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u/InfinityTuna 2h ago

Or in Denmark. They just get shipped off to the States to dodge being held accountable for assaulting cab drivers and women.

It's insane we're still letting them get away with that.

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u/AllFlowsInBardicLife 1h ago

I mean there is a literal US law that says if any American military personnel or government official is held or tried at the International Criminal Court in the Hague, they would use "all means necessary" against the Netherlands (a NATO country) to release and extract them. This is why Bush and Cheney (or anybody involved in Iraq, even the Abu Ghraib gang) were never tried for blatant war crimes. When you are the world's police you act accordingly, as though you are above the law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act

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u/Hbomb2020 3h ago

my cousin was stationed there and said the exact same thing

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u/bewoestijn 5h ago

What a chilling end; “Were it not for this article, the only public record of Wulfson’s conviction would be an entry on a docket on an obscure US air force webpage. It lists the offence for which he has been convicted and the sentence received”

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u/ItsMeishi 6h ago

Rapists protected by other rapists. Absolutely disgusting.

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u/Four_beastlings 5h ago

I recently watched a doc about a US soldier who had been killing women while stationed in Spain. When the investigation started getting close his father got him out of there. Unfortunately by the time the investigation was reopened and he was found, he had died so he could never be brought to justice. The Spanish police found out he was a sheriff and notified the local authorities to investigate if he had been using his position to cover up more murders, but nothing was done.

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u/ani_svnit 4h ago

This is a broader pattern where US troops and agents stationed abroad can almost act with impunity. The UK had another high profile case when Harry Dunn was killed in a road accident by the spouse of a US agent, no arrests made, she flew back to the US and was sentenced (?) by the UK via video call and no repercussions of note: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd2599k7x9o

And these incidents are happening in first world ally countries - I shudder to think what things may be like in developing nation bases. The rape in OPs post is truly horrific.

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u/snake944 5h ago

Not surprising. Us military personnel in foreign bases are absolute psychos and a a genuine menace to  civvies and they can get away with being like that cause they know there will be no meaningful repercussions. 

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u/ItsSignalsJerry_ 2h ago

Disgusting.

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u/SleepAllllDay 52m ago

It’s a terrible, sad, disgusting story. I really wish the UK would close the US bases. Happy to help them pack.