Over the weekend, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted a violent meme of a turtle from a children’s book series. The post came amid reports that Hegseth had overseen a targeted attack on a boat in the Caribbean Sea thought to be transporting drugs; per NBC , experts said that a second strike on the boat — which reportedly killed those who survived the first strike — could constitute a war crime.

Details on the incident, including who officially issued the orders, remain unclear, and Hegseth has defended the military action as “lawful under both U.S. and international law.” Nevertheless, he’s posting through it — on Saturday, he shared a seemingly AI-generated cover of a fake book from the Franklin the Turtle series on X , titled “Franklin Targets Narco Terrorists.” (The usual, re

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