I'm not a fan of "invasive species" in this context either. But in Star Trek, trilithium resin isn't stated to be harmful to anything other than humanoids. Would using land mines be an attack against the national environment? People can't live there, but everything else is fine.

Reprisals in kind to war crimes have always been allowed subject to certain conditions, namely not targeting civilians, happening after a warning, and happening under competent authority.

The first criterion is the only one that's questionable.

Reprisals are technically allowed if civilians aren't targeted. And I'd say that we don't know how much actual danger the civilians on those planets were in. Benefit of the doubt, they may have been in little or no danger.

I'm VERY VERY VERY grateful to be in the bracket where an ambulance call isn't a concern for me. Someone in my family got billed $5000 for a 1 mile ride, but was able to argue it down to zero. I'm not in the bracket where I don't have to worry about medevac though.

OMG it's happening!!!!

I think Democrats need to change their name to something that isn't alliterative with disarray. The only similar thing I can think of for Republicans is a slur, so I won't say it.