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US Secretary Of Defence Hegseth Promises Iranians ‘No Quarter’ – A War Crime
(www.huffingtonpost.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2026
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Also a great way to make the enemy fight to the death, causing you more casualties in the process. What a dumbass.
I think that's the intent here. They need a new forever war.
serious question, what do they stand to gain from that.
The american people aren't behind this, you could make the argument that it served to rally europes political class behind the US again but i don't think that's a priority for the trumo administration
War powers - cancel election - narrow all power into the executive - god king names successor probably Barron
Essentially North Korea
I'm sure Trump has convinced himself that if we're in the middle of a meat grinder war, we won't want to "switch horses midstream," the phrase Nixon used to convince people to vote for him in 1972, so he could finish the war.
Trump thinks we'll beg him to remain in office and fight this war as only he knows how to do.
Different scope, though. I don't think quarter or no quarter affects the whole country's willingness to surrender (the chance of that is basically zero either way), but it does affect individuals. If you have a few enemy combatants holed up somewhere, it could cost you a lot of people, ammo and time you'd rather spend somewhere else to take them out. They know they can't win, and it's either surrender or die. But if surrender means death, they'll definitely not surrender. Now you need to eliminate them the hard way.
Of course, doing it that way requires more resources, which I guess is good for business in the military industrial complex.
The dream of any fascist.