Curious which countries deemed German actions in WW2 “realities of war” and how that went for them.
Well, one of them is currently invading Iran.
If it were 150 little British girls would it be a war crime?
That depends, if they are killed by an Iranian or Russian strike then absolutely. If they’re killed by the Epstein coalition then it’s complicated.
I will never understand how effortlessly evil Western supremacists are.
Skill issue, legitimately. If you don’t understand how you can discount that kind of slaughter, you’re probably already doing it.
That said, disregarding the obvious evil of massacring over a hundred children, for civilian deaths from bombardment to be a war crime, it has to be the deliberate targeting of civilians. Mistaking a civilian building for a military one and bombing it is not a war crime. Killing civilians while using the most accurate means available to aim at military targets is not a war crime.
War crimes were codified by western nations using western standards for what sort of behavior is sportsmanlike in warfare, with those standards informed by the sort of horrors those nations tend to commit.
Like with regular crime, we should get used to not using “crime” as a word to denote moral judgument. It’s just a word for doing something the state doesn’t like. All good people are criminals.
The most disturbing part is that they don’t even understand that they’re evil. They genuinely see themselves as being on the right side of history.
