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Author: commonone 🐝🐝 BRONZE
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Subject: Word of the Day: Perfidy
Date: 01/12/26 10:33 PM
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The New York Times is reporting today that the Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a boat that the Trump administration said was smuggling drugs, killing 11 people last September.

That is a war crime called “perfidy.”

Retired Maj. Gen. Steven J. Lepper, a former deputy judge advocate general for the United States Air Force, said that if the aircraft had been painted in a way that disguised its military nature and got close enough for the people on the boat to see it — tricking them into failing to realize they should take evasive action or surrender to survive — that was a war crime under armed-conflict standards.

“Shielding your identity is an element of perfidy,” he said. “If the aircraft flying above is not identifiable as a combatant aircraft, it should not be engaged in combatant activity.”


At what point do you guys finally admit that the Trump administration are the bad guys?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/us/politics/us-...
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