• Dadifer@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    I’m not sure siege is considered a war crime. Isn’t that just standard medieval warfare?

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      8 hours ago

      I mean really the existence of war crimes relies on the existence of treaties between the nations defining what those crimes are. Gonna guess the Fire Nation was not a signatory.

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      8 hours ago

      The other nations wouldn’t see it that way.

      There’s no central authority, but it’s not a machiavellian free-for-all like medeival Europe. The rest of the world was rather unhappy with the Fire Nation’s aggression, even in light if the world’s long history of warfare. He would be tried for that, no doubt.

      And his reputation/nickname is subtext for crimes he did commit but that the cartoon couldn’t spell out.

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      No, it’s not a war crime that I can find, however we can attribute harm caused to civilians through these actions, such as starvation due to supply lines cut off. So he did some vile shit, had a moment where he realized the error in his ways, then did everything in his power to make things better.