Trump Shares Collateral Murder-Style Snuff Film On 15th Anniversary Of Collateral Murder

President Trump has posted a video on social media showing a US airstrike in Yemen killing dozens of people who he claims are “Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack.” Trump also bizarrely suggested that Ansar Allah has been sinking US ships in its Red Sea attacks, writing “They will never sink our ships again!”

There is no public information about any US ships having been sunk by Houthi attacks. As of this writing there is also no evidence supporting the president’s claim that the people killed in the airstrike were combatants; there are photos online of unarmed Yemeni tribesmen standing in the exact formation seen in the video Trump posted for normal civilian gatherings.

I’ve seen many observers comparing the video Trump posted to the leaked Collateral Murder video published by WikiLeaks in 2010, which showed US servicemen firing on Iraqi civilians and journalists from Apache helicopters while laughing and joking about the carnage they were inflicting. What hasn’t received quite enough attention is the fact that Trump actually shared his Collateral Murder-style snuff film on the 15th anniversary of the day WikiLeaks published Collateral Murder.

Within hours of Trump’s posting, the WikiLeaks Twitter account tweeted the following:

“On this day in 2010: Collateral Murder. WikiLeaks released a secret US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff.”

For those who don’t know, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was savagely persecuted by the US government for the information he published in 2010, spending 2012 to 2019 trapped in the Ecuadorian embassy in London under political asylum from US extradition attempts, and then jailed in a British maximum security prison on a US extradition warrant from 2019 to 2024 before securing his freedom. It was the first Trump administration who had him dragged from the embassy for the crime of journalism in 2019.

This is just the latest disgusting act of warmongering that Trump has inflicted on Yemen, and as always it is completely unjustifiable. It’s obviously idiotic to think bombing Yemen again will bring peace to the region; only a foam-brained moron would believe such a thing. But it’s also worse than that, because Trump wouldn’t even have any moral legitimacy in bombing Yemen if peace really was his goal.

Yemen is trying to stop an active genocide. That’s what its Red Sea blockade has always been about. That’s the only reason Ansar Allah has ever attacked ships in the region. Their explicit and publicly stated goal is to exert pressure on Israel and its allies to halt the genocide in Gaza.

Trump has no moral legitimacy in trying to stop Yemen from doing this. The New York Times reports that the Pentagon is telling Congress behind closed doors that Trump’s costly war on Yemen is failing to achieve its objectives despite daily airstrikes, but even if Trump was successful in bombing Yemen into submission, all he’d be succeeding in doing is removing economic pressure on Israel to end its ongoing mass atrocity. Trump is actually bombing Yemen to defend Israel’s right to commit genocide.

Even if Trump could mass murder his way into ending the Houthi blockade, that wouldn’t be peace — at least not the kind of peace that normal, healthy people care about. It would be the kind of “peace” that exists in a room full of corpses. The kind of “peace” that exists on a slave plantation where all the slaves have been successfully whipped and tortured into obedience.

When Trump’s supporters babble about “peace through strength”, that is what they mean by “peace”. When normal, healthy people say peace, they mean the absence of abuse. When empire loyalists say peace, they mean obedience and submission to the empire.

This is what people are saying when they claim “There was a ceasefire on October 6th,” implying that there was peace before Hamas launched its attack in 2023. They don’t mean the same thing that normal, healthy people mean by peace. Their vision of “peace” was always Palestinians lying down and submitting and slowly getting shuffled out of the way, like the indigenous victims of other western settler-colonialist projects throughout history.

That’s not peace. That’s just unresisted abuse.

But that’s the only kind of “peace” that Trump and his fellow empire managers will ever accept in the middle east. The “peace” of compliance and obedience. The “peace” of prostration before the empire. The kind of “peace” you get when you start murdering everyone in the room until there’s nobody left but corpses and those who submit to your will.

This is who these people are. This is the closest thing to “peace” that they will ever allow under their rule.

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One thought on “Trump Shares Collateral Murder-Style Snuff Film On 15th Anniversary Of Collateral Murder

  • trump senile deranged zionist lackey

    The Yemeni have already debunked demented Trump’s claim of bombing ‘militants’.

    Here is what they say:

    SABA source refutes Trump claim of killing Yemeni operatives in strike
    “there is no connection, as falsely claimed by Trump, between those who were present at the gathering and the military operations carried out by the Yemeni Armed Forces.”

    “The source clarified that the video posted by Trump, which he claimed showed a military leaders’ gathering, was actually a social event held for Eid al-fitr celebrations in Hodeidah governorate. Such events are organized in various provinces during every holiday and occasion, a fact well-known to all the people of Yemen, the source noted.”

    Yemen Armed Forces also never sank a US ship.

    Let’s be serious if they had they would have promoted the event as a great success.

    They didn’t so Trump is, again lying or imagining things. Is Trump just a liar or also a myth-maniac?

    Should senile leaders be allowed to use social media without their posts being checked for grave errors before?

    What is real however is that:

    “CNN revealed that the military offensive against Sanaa has cost the US nearly $1 billion in less than three weeks, despite the limited impact the strikes have had on Yemeni capabilities.”

    ” In the past few days, the YAF has downed three US-operated unmanned aerial vehicles over Yemeni airspace, including two MQ-9 Reaper drones. This coincides with near-daily counterattacks against the strike group in the northern Red Sea and long-range attacks against Israeli targets.”

    OOPS…

    Not only Trump is ruining the country with his tariffs and wars & genocides for israel, he also discredit himself by his verbal diarrhea on “truth social” (LOL).

    Charles de Gaulle, a real leader contrary to Trump and any other actual western “leader”, famously said:
    ” Old age is wreckage”.
    For the second time since 2020, the US have had a senile, demented and deranged president totally remote controlled from a foreign genocidal regime.

    Wasn’t the first one enough for them that they had to elect another zionist senile puppet?

    Or is he doing it on purpose as the 2010 anniversary date suggests?

    Who would destroy his country and discredit himself on purpose?

    Rather for who would someone do that?

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