• mr_world [they/them]
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    3 years ago
    1. Send in surge under the pretense of puling out

    2. Send in paratroopers because shooting them down is considered a war crime

    3. Taliban inevitably shoots down paratrooper

    4. Taliban has now did war crimes and is preventing Americans from coming home

    5. Try to milk another few years of involvement and kick withdrawal down the road to the next person

    6. ???

    7. Profit

    • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Article 42 – Occupants of aircraft

      1. No person parachuting from an aircraft in distress shall be made the object of attack during his descent.

      2. Upon reaching the ground in territory controlled by an adverse Party, a person who has parachuted from an aircraft in distress shall be given an opportunity to surrender before being made the object of attack, unless it is apparent that he is engaging in a hostile act.

      3. Airborne troops are not protected by this Article.

      Unless I am missing something that wont work.

      If they were truly going for this narrative I would expect something far more obvious like some unfortunate missile attack on a civilian building or chemical weapons.

    • ThomasMuentzner [he/him, comrade/them]
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      slight correction one of the first thing i learned in the army was, that you most certainly have to shoot down the Paratroopers . Because they are fucking Paratroopers and your a fucking Conscript and once they are on the ground they gonna be better then you are at this war shit... and you dont accidently become a Paratrooper .