Published Dec 17, 2025. #JustSecurity #USMG

Part 1: "Why the boat strikes in the Caribbean and East Pacific are illegal, and any incursion into Venezuela will be."

"Ryan Goodman is the Co-editor-in-chief of Just Security, which has been reviewing the legality of the boat strikes since September 3rd. I’ve only seen its credentialed members being interviewed by MSM in a little over past week, and when news broke of the OLC memo. What there has been virtually no reportage about this entire time, as Ryan Goodman just reiterated, is that the U.S. is not, although it’s asserted, in a “non-international armed conflict”. The engagement doesn’t legally qualify. They agree with the UN High Commissioner that these are extrajudicial killings. That means the entire chain of command has been ordered to commit murder, and they are vulnerable to prosecution. MSM was awash with potential war crime coverage, while the same author from the Former JAGs Working Group who published the applicable war crimes statutes stated they are not legally applicable on the same day. (JAG stands for Judge Advocate General’s Corps, meaning military lawyers.)...

The same day Wapo reported the “kill them all” order, it was reported Trump announced he’ll pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez who was sentenced to 45 years in federal prison for drug trafficking 400 tonnes of cocaine to the U.S. “According to Schlenker, Hernández paid D.C. lobbying group BGR Group, which was a leading donor to now Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign, over $600,000 in 2019 to win allies in Washington as he was under investigation. [...] 'Rubio, for his part, has long sung Hernández’s praises, thanking him for his work targeting drug trafficking'."

https://therevolutionismybf.substack.com/p/narcoterrorist-the-eventuated-war