> That's neither a French citizen nor is it anything beyond an anecdote.
Well I don't know why it would matter that it's a French citizen. And I'm not sure how in the world you're claiming this is an anecdote as if France's drone strike were untrue. Do you have a direct source that contradicts the account of the French government?
> If you can show me France's equivalent to Pakistan [0], then we might be getting somewhere.
Why would I need to show you that? You asked for an example, not "show me an exact equivalent to this thing I haven't previously mentioned".
> It's not bizarre at all; Weapons of war being used in a conflict of war is something very different than dropping weapons of war on a civilian population you are not officially at war with.
Ok then we're at war with Pakistan (since that's the example you're using). Great now we're back to where we started and you got the "war" designation you wanted.
> Well I don't know why it would matter that it's a French citizen.
Because the US is even droning its own citizens [0], you were the one who originally brought this up as something the US allegedly does not do.
> And I'm not sure how in the world you're claiming this is an anecdote as if France's drone strike were untrue.
In that particular case it's not even clear it was a French drone that got him, the French only reported his passing, but going after him was a joint operation together with the US.
It's an anecdote because France has only been using drone strikes since 2019 and only in Mali, that's about two decades after the US first started droning people and about a dozen fewer countries droned.
> Why would I need to show you that? You asked for an example, not "show me an exact equivalent to this thing I haven't previously mentioned".
I asked for an example of a country constantly droning some place or another, which the US very much does, as the US has the most active and largest scale (global scale) drone program on the planet.
> Ok then we're at war with Pakistan (since that's the example you're using). Great now we're back to where we started and you got the "war" designation you wanted.
The US is not at war with Pakistan and I'm not "wanting" any designations.
You where the one who claimed "doesn't stop other countries" like the US drone program ain't some massive outlier, like the US didn't champion and normalize this for two decades.
And it only became normalized as nobody dared to seriously call the US out on it, even those who are directly enabling such US atrocities [1]
Well I don't know why it would matter that it's a French citizen. And I'm not sure how in the world you're claiming this is an anecdote as if France's drone strike were untrue. Do you have a direct source that contradicts the account of the French government?
> If you can show me France's equivalent to Pakistan [0], then we might be getting somewhere.
Why would I need to show you that? You asked for an example, not "show me an exact equivalent to this thing I haven't previously mentioned".
> It's not bizarre at all; Weapons of war being used in a conflict of war is something very different than dropping weapons of war on a civilian population you are not officially at war with.
Ok then we're at war with Pakistan (since that's the example you're using). Great now we're back to where we started and you got the "war" designation you wanted.