Peter Hegseth again, this time normalising war crimes:

Hegseth: No quarter, no mercy for our enemies. Yet some in the press just can’t stop. More fake news from CNN reports that the Trump administration underestimated the Iran war’s impact on the strait of hormuz. The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better.

Some said he’s just used the term “no quarter” metaphorically but in English it seems to be a very specific term, not a catch all phrase. Senator Mark Kelly, a navy veteran himself, commented on this:

“No quarter” isn’t some wanna be tough guy line - it means something. An order to give no quarter would mean to take no prisoners and kill them instead. That would violate the law of armed conflict. It would be an illegal order. It would also put American service members at greater risk. Pete Hegseth should know better than to throw around terms like this.

There’s currently one country in the world that has normalised execution of prisoners of war out of desperation, but it didn’t help it much - it got hopelessly stuck in #Ukraine war anyway.