• @[email protected]
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      1911 months ago

      Lincoln was absofuckinglutely a war criminal. Now did his victims deserve it? Listen if anyone deserves war crimes it’s the confederacy. But yeah definitely did war crimes. Sherman’s march to the sea was the most based war crime there ever was.

    • @[email protected]
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      911 months ago

      It’s not a war crime if it’s against the British Empire.

      Please amend “Slave Owners” to your list, ty.

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      411 months ago

      Hey! Don’t forget about East Timor!

    • @vaultdweller013
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      111 months ago

      Did Theodore Roosevelt do any war crimes? Like maybe with the rough riders? But Im drawing blanks.

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        511 months ago

        The whole panana thing was p sketchy but since it wasn’t technically an American war it isn’t a war crime.

        Also war crimes weren’t really “invented” until Nuremberg so in some sense no one committed war crimes until then. Somewhat more awkwardly the nazis tried at Nuremberg were being judged by laws that weren’t really codified until after they had committed them.

        Imo war crimes isn’t really a good way of phrasing it bc unlike a nations legal code which is usually fairly black and white, war crimes are international and therefore a lot more subject to politics. I’m glad they were punished but I wish it hadn’t been execution in so many cases, and it has been called something like “acts unbecoming of a human”. Something nasty but definitely not related to the legal system.