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Short version: Bunch of Jarheads tried to sneak into North Korea to plant a listening device on Trump’s orders, got spotted immediately, killed the witnesses, sank their bodies, then immediately ran back home

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      6·
      1 hour ago

      One of my favorite comic book moments is in an issue of The Punisher

      In it, Nick Fury finds out that an Army general gave the green light to a plot to kill 300 civilians to distract Russia from a plot to steal a bioweapon out from under their noses

      Nick Fury takes his belt off and beats the general with it until he’s pissed himself and cowering on the floor in a catatonic state

      Just mentioning this for no reason in particular

  • Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    1 hour ago

    These bastards stole (at least) three people away from their families, friends, and communities because they MIGHT have seen something while they were out minding their own business. All to protect the integrity of a mission that was kinda pointless and failed anyways. What was going to happen if one of these guys said something? The most the DPRK could do in retaliation would be to make an accusation towards the US that would ultimately go nowhere. America can inflict nightmares even greater than this with total impunity and its disgusting.

    Edit: and they mutilated their bodies? jesus fucking christ

    • Kieselguhr [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      2 hours ago

      also:

      In 2021, the Biden administration briefed key members of Congress on the findings, a former government official said. Those findings remain classified.

      There’s a fascist Cheeto in the White House breaking international law, but civil adults-in-the-room Democrats covered for him. How liberal of them!

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    24·
    3 hours ago

    DPRK would know about this right? There is no way that some bodies full of bullets with knife wounds to their lungs wouldn’t immediately be flagged as US special ops. Nobody else would be doing it.

    Anyway release of this information is probably intended to create paranoia. The DPRK would know about the op but wouldn’t know its intent, releasing this information out there will create a reaction. If they tried this op once, they would try it again, so the assumption the DPRK has to make is that they probably successfully installed whatever it is they wanted to install. Basically this is america trying to say to DPRK that “we know what you’re planning” and instill a good amount of paranoia in the process.

    • Comrade_Cat@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      11·
      2 hours ago

      I’m sure the DPRK knew. At the end of the article they present the fact that the talks between the DPRK and USA less than a month later fell apart quickly and the DPRK quickly resumed missile testing as some tangentially related fact. I’m sure they had a strong suspicion that it was the US and Trump probably said some dumb shit that confirmed it during the talks they had scheduled so the DPRK dropped it all.

      Besides who else but the roided up drug crazed US special forces would shoot civilians then stab them repeatedly to “let the air out of their lungs so they’d sink”?

  • mudpuppy [it/its, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    31·
    4 hours ago

    its so fucked how nyt is still trying to cover for them, like making soooo many excuses “there could be nuclear war” “they were scared!! :(” and how they just call it “a north korean boat” and gloss over how they were civilians. death 2 amerikkka