#Combatant
*From the Preliminary Patch Notes*

FINGER GUNZ, M'DUDE ?!?!?!?!?!

Our Heavyweight Champew pew-
December 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
... the Trump/Hegseth "determination" that anyone transporting drugs in the Western Hemisphere is a "narco-terrorist" and thus an "enemy combatant" who (i) can be targeted; and (ii) doesn't have to be factored into a proportionality analysis when targeting a legitimate "war-sustaining object." [2]
December 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I'm not a military/armed conflict person, but a retreating combatant is clearly different than a surrendering one.
December 10, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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#BlueCrew
December 13, 2025 at 2:20 AM
"We expect, as a civilization, the lowest ranked combatant to be able to successfully figure out how NOT to commit a war crime and we drafted the rules accordingly.

So it’s not really surprising that G.I. Gemini here figured out the right answer." 🙃
Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law
The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.
abovethelaw.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:03 PM
ALL of the deadly US strikes on alleged drug boats are murders

There is no rule of law if the president can deem anyone an enemy combatant and order them summarily shot

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
All of the suspected drug boat killings are murders | Kenneth Roth
There is no rule of law if the president can deem anyone an enemy combatant and order them summarily shot
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Those operations raise serious questions about proportionality, due process, and the expanding definition of “combatant” in non-war maritime zones.
9/12
December 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
If an enemy large surface combatant can be struck with a high pK pulse, there’s absolutely no reason not to do it
December 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Shipwrecked = incapacitated’ — this principle is clearly established in the law.
When a combatant is trapped in a sinking vessel, unarmed, and without any means of escape —
he is no longer a combatant; he becomes a protected person.
December 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Enlist in Abelard's navy which uniform are you choosing?

Far Left: H.A.T (Heavily Augmented Trooper) semi-permanently hypnotized & inflated.
Mid Left: Officer. Lieutenants and upwards.
Mid Right: Sailors, most non-combatant roles.
Far Right: Marine.

(Designs: @glazfox.bsky.social) #AbelardAzurspan
December 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
"The murder of shipwrecked survivors is the most fundamental example [...] of an unambiguous crime on the high seas. It is a practice absolutely prohibited under all circumstances, including against members of a combatant enemy force in a genuine war or armed conflict."
December 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Hey Atlantic copy editors. Please explain to all of us how denying your enemy access to resources (cash from oil sales to buy war materials) is a ‘sign of desperation’. If non-combatant nations refuse to embargo Russian oil interdicting the flow of that commodity seems smart.
December 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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#BlueCrew‬
December 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
All the Americans shot in the water during World War II after their boats were sunk, were viewed as enemy combatant by the Japanese and Germans, who killed them. There was no dispute that those were war crimes.
Hegseth’s own “fog of war” excuse fully contradicts this new excuse, which they have clearly just come up with to try to keep him out of the Hague
EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people on a suspected drug-smuggling boat because they were on an internal list of military targets, the commander overseeing the operation told lawmakers, according to multiple sources.
December 7, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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#BlueCrew
December 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
but i guess a lot depends on just how big you can make the cost gap between a baby burke meant for ASW, escort, minesweeping that is nevertheless not *helpless* against missile threats and an actual big-girl front line surface combatant

which is not exactly a question i know the answer to lol
December 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
"There is no rule of law if the president can deem anyone an enemy combatant and order them summarily shot...If there is ever a time for Republicans in Congress to risk a Trump-inspired primary challenge, this is it."

If people can be murdered at sea, who will stop it on US soil?
Not #SCOTUS.
December 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
All of the deadly US strikes on alleged drug boats are murders.
There is no rule of law if the president can deem anyone an enemy combatant and order them summarily shot.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
All of the suspected drug boat killings are murders | Kenneth Roth
There is no rule of law if the president can deem anyone an enemy combatant and order them summarily shot
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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www.change.org/p/with-this-...

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#BlueCrew
December 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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#BlueCrew
December 13, 2025 at 2:15 AM
"turn the Curse of the dungeon into your Power" is a great theme cursed items et al are some of the most fun things in crunchy DRPG but

I like cleavage and underboob as much as the next person but the only conclusion I can come to from this cover is the curse makes your boobs need ventilation
December 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
To be a valid military target, a person must be a combatant actively engaging in armed hostilities against the US (as in an armed organized fighting situation).
December 8, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Something I've noted as well: per their rationalizations, the *only* way someone qualifies as a survivor rather than active combatant would be if they were literally unconscious
December 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Above the Rim

And Arthur Agee in Hoopr Dreams may be our peak dad combatant
December 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I actually wrote the part about the highway of death before the latest round of discourse. It illustrates very well what makes someone a combatant (intent to contest our will by force) and why running away isn’t giving up (giving up is giving up).
“Absolute suffering would not be warfare” -Carl von Clausewitz

My latest on the strikes in the Caribbean, war crimes, and the definition of war (and why it’s important to have one)

open.substack.com/pub/deadcarl...
Crimes in the Caribbean and the Definition of War
"Absolute suffering would not be warfare"
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM