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by JumpCrisscross 85 days ago
> that by WWII standards, would have been seen as a cowardly violation of the rules of war

Source? Torpedoing anything with the enemy flag, down to civilian boats and merchant marines, was normalized by centuries of precedent by WWII.
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defrost 85 days ago 

  “failing to do everything possible to rescue those aboard is certainly a war crime,” as the Second Geneva Convention requires militaries to take all possible measures to search for and collect the shipwrecked, wounded, and sick.
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JumpCrisscross 85 days ago
What are you quoting?
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tptacek 85 days ago
"the co-director of the Institute for Policy Studies’ New Internationalism Project".
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defrost 85 days ago
Ahh, cheers for that - busy morning & I failed to circle back.

This instance is hardly clear cut .. I put more effort into this peer comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47559796

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