• Jake Farm
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    7 months ago

    I brought is up because I am unsure where the line of genocide is especially since wars that involve the US tend to have loads of civilian deaths.

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      7 months ago

      Over 100,000 civilians died in Iraq and Afghanistan during “the war on terror”.

      That’s worth it because of 9/11 tho /s

    • Maven (famous)@lemmy.zip
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      7 months ago

      The US does a lot of war crimes. They’ve just been historically more powerful than the people who prosecute war crimes.

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        7 months ago

        They also aren’t a member of many international legal bodies and thus do not consider themselves bound by international law. Frustratingly, they are basically right - international law is opt-in.