'Deeply Troubling': Military Expert Warns Trump Is Unilaterally 'Deciding To Kill People'

[Shipwack]

28. Not making excuses for this, but...

I think that the orders are being carried out because:

1) it’s easy for sailors to think of the attack as “shooting at a boat” and not as “murdering three people” when you are attacking from a distance and can’t see anyone “.

2) they train for this all the time. When you repeatedly drill to do something as practice, it is easier do it without thinking it through in reality.

3) No one person is responsible for the assault; it’s a group effort to fire a missile or something else.

4) It’s harder to dissent when you’re part of a group. You don’t know what other people are thinking and you think you’re the only one with doubts.

5) Fear of retribution for disobeying orders, even if they are illegitimate.

Now, there are probably some MAGA types in the crew (especially the officers). There are probably some who are uncomfortable with this. The crew of any ship is a slice of the general population.

I also wish there was someone resisting this. Maybe if we start getting some hard info on the victims to drive home the point that they were innocent this will happen. Since the media is complicit in going along with the attacks, I don’t think this will happen any time soon.