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Moulton: I know active duty Marines who now refer to Pete Hegseth’s department as the department of war crimes. That's because they do things like this, destroy civilian infrastructure, which, just to be clear, is a war crime. It's meant to hurt civilians.

This is the same stuff that we criticize Vladimir Putin for doing in Ukraine.

He doesn't know how to get out. So what is he doing? He's resorting to war crimes. It's an embarrassment.


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Congressman Seth Moulton served four tours in Iraq as a Marine officer. He is not a partisan commentator on military ethics. He is a combat veteran describing what active duty Marines are telling him.

"Department of war crimes" as informal nomenclature among active duty personnel is the institutional signal underneath the political statement. When the service members executing the orders describe the institution that way internally, that is a readiness and morale signal that no briefing will capture.

The Putin comparison is the precise accountability frame. The U.S. has spent three years documenting Russian strikes on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, hospitals, power plants, and bridges as war crimes. Kenneth Roth and 1,000 international law experts made the same argument this morning about U.S. strikes on Iranian civilian infrastructure.

The legal standard doesn't change based on which country applies it. If striking power plants and bridges to deny civilian access is a war crime when Russia does it in Ukraine, the same analysis applies when the U.S. does it in Iran.

Moulton is saying what the active duty Marines are saying. The Economist's executive editor said "we are completely lost" this morning. Macron said Trump contradicts himself every day. 1,000 international law experts published a statement.
 


Victor Glover (pilot of Artemis II) was already a spacecraft pilot for SpaceX Crew-1. He is a naval captain who has had his naval aviator wings for 25 years. He has three (3) masters degrees, including in flight test engineering and systems engineering. He's been a test pilot since 2007. He has thousands of flight hours.

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