'For decades, leaders who were responsible for war crimes tended to plead ignorance or insist it was a mistake and their hands were clean.
What has changed in the Middle East is the swaggering contempt we have seen from the US, Israel and Iran as they instead dismiss, mock or flout the international laws protecting civilians.
If the international community does not urgently reassert support for those norms, it may be acquiescing to their destruction.
The leaders repudiating the laws of war today may think they will gain from a world without rules, where brute force settles every question and all civilian harm is just written off as collateral damage.
But by dismissing the principle of nonreciprocity, which makes clear that one side’s violations do not justify noncompliance by the other, they have spurred rounds of tit-for-tat strikes that put their own troops as well as their civilian populations in harm’s way.'
Uhhhh carpet bombing isn't occurring and given that's hundreds of thousands died from that and cities were erased id say significant strides have been made. Also notice the only side who has continued to target civilians and has started upping it to attack water systems… it isn't the US it the global leader on terror.
Oh and who can forget them launch cluster munitions into cities… yeahhhh Iran has no moral high ground here at all.
Certainly both sides are committing war crimes but USA and Israel are clearly the stronger militarily and have delivered orders of magnitude more civilian casualties than Iran.
USA is the dominant world military power and is leading a charge down the road to disregard for internationally agreed laws on the parameters of war.
USA and Israel started this conflict in breach of international law and have escalated it at every step increasingly disregarding international law.
All who enable, support or obfuscate these war crimes are complicit.
Talk shit get hit. Iran's regime said "death to America" so they had to die. Why don't you use those rare earths to take back your Venezuelan and Iranian oil if you don't like it?
To Hell with international law. You only like international law because you can get a vote of confidence from pathetic European fags for Mao's rogue state. You'll get no sympathy from the US. If it takes a billion casualties to defend the Republic of China from you godless communist bandits then so be it. You started it with your deranged pro-tax socialist ideology, your incessant whining about Western imperialism, and your birth tourism. It's all finally coming to an end. History will remember Donald J. Trump as the Lafayette of the Pacific.
What is that little triangle icon next to the post name? What does it mean?
EDIT: Never mind figured it out :)
I’m always scared I feel so alive!
Just listening to that combination of moronic and evil that is Pete Hegseth, head of the "Department of War" absolutely turns my stomach.
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