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by ahartmetz 1089 days ago
IMO, the war crimes thing, unless very egregious, is not a very good argument. Because if there is a war, there will be war crimes, and wartime-legal actions that are as bad as war crimes, too. Basically, you start a war, you awaken the monster, and everything that happens is your responsibility. A "small" amount of war crimes is par for the course. The US did it, too!
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vorpalhex 1088 days ago
> Basically, you start a war, you awaken the monster, and everything that happens is your responsibility.

Correct, Russia invaded Ukraine and committed war crimes. Thus why Russia can be penalized for those war crimes as a country, even though the crimes were committed by individual soldiers.

> if there is a war, there will be war crimes

And if you have a city, people will commit crimes too. Should we not punish those either?

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_kbh_ 1088 days ago
> IMO, the war crimes thing, unless very egregious, is not a very good argument. Because if there is a war, there will be war crimes, and wartime-legal actions that are as bad as war crimes, too. Basically, you start a war, you awaken the monster, and everything that happens is your responsibility. A "small" amount of war crimes is par for the course. The US did it, too!

I don't know I think the scales of rape and torture of civilians by Russia in Ukraine is pretty egregious.

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