As Israel’s assault on Gaza continued Friday with 4,100 Palestinians—including over 1,600 children—killed and at least 13,000 others wounded by relentless bombardment that’s destroyed or damaged nearly a third of the besieged strip’s homes, Amnesty International shared “damning evidence of war crimes as Israeli attacks wipe out entire families.” Amnesty interviewed survivors and eyewitnesses, analyzed … Continue reading "Amnesty Probe Finds ‘Damning Evidence of War Crimes’ by Israel in Gaza"
Putin is dead if he tries that. The rest of the world will depose him forcefully.
It’s not like he’s not doing it because of the Geneva convention right now. He’s clearly not following many of those rules already because he knows nobody will stop him.
That’s what I’m saying, the only thing that matters in war is the limits imposed by others, Not self limits.
They’re right though. If you establish that war crimes are OK to do, it removes all your legitimacy and opens up the enemy to do them too. It’s a lot harder to rally the world against your opponent for doing something you’ve been shamelessly doing the whole time.
You realize the US never signed the agreement to allow the International Criminal Court to prosecute Americans for war crimes right?
Neither did Israel, Russia, China, or India.
The Geneva convention is essentially a guidebook at this point, it has no enforcement mechanism against anybody that matters in the current military engagements happening in the world.
So Russia should start using nuclear weapons and chemical and biological attacks, and blowing up nuclear power plants in Ukraine, then?
Putin is dead if he tries that. The rest of the world will depose him forcefully.
It’s not like he’s not doing it because of the Geneva convention right now. He’s clearly not following many of those rules already because he knows nobody will stop him.
That’s what I’m saying, the only thing that matters in war is the limits imposed by others, Not self limits.
They’re right though. If you establish that war crimes are OK to do, it removes all your legitimacy and opens up the enemy to do them too. It’s a lot harder to rally the world against your opponent for doing something you’ve been shamelessly doing the whole time.
You realize the US never signed the agreement to allow the International Criminal Court to prosecute Americans for war crimes right? Neither did Israel, Russia, China, or India.
The Geneva convention is essentially a guidebook at this point, it has no enforcement mechanism against anybody that matters in the current military engagements happening in the world.
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