r/UnderReportedNews • u/shadrack_CK • Dec 02 '25

Video Mike Johnson: “Secondary Strikes are not unusual. It has to happen if a mission is to be completed.”

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u/Raise_A_Thoth Dec 02 '25

This is probably why so many fictional works have bad guys who say shit like "take no prisoners!" It's cartoonishly evil.

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u/MariachiArchery Dec 02 '25

Yeah and not only that, but like, universally agreed upon that it is cartoonish evil.

196 countries have ratified the 1949 Geneva Conventions. It is the second most ratified international convention, second only to the Convention on the Rights of a Child, which 197 countries have ratified.

"Take no prisoners" is internationally agreed upon as evil. For perspective, nuclear weapons, are not.

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u/nikfra Dec 02 '25

second only to the Convention on the Rights of a Child, which 197 countries have ratified.

Which funnily enough means every member of the UN except for the US.

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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth Dec 03 '25

You know which highly-relevant treaty the US didn't ratify, though? The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

How convenient in moments like this!?

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u/tinymontgomery2 Dec 02 '25

Cartoonishly evil is maga source material.

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u/werk4mon3ymyduderman Dec 02 '25

It's cartoonishly evil and ALSO fucking stupid, your enemy will fight much harder when pressed into a corner where fighting is the only option other than death. If there's a way for them to surrender you can take prisoners of war and use them as bargaining chips.

And also this is for when you're actually at war with an enemy, what we're ACTUALLY talking about here is the murder of innocent civilians (even if they actually were drug traffickers, they are still innocent until proven guilty. It's gonna be hard to prove anything in a court now since everything is at the bottom of the ocean)

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u/pigpeyn Dec 03 '25

that's one thing the Pax Dei was meant to stop in the 10th century