I didn't expect to grow up and find that war crime is borderline normalized. In like every fucking war. I thought that it was something out of the ordinary when I was young. And people who committed them were brought to justice.
But trolololol NOPE.
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I didn't expect to grow up and find that war crime is borderline normalized. In like every fucking war. I thought that it was something out of the ordinary when I was young. And people who committed them were brought to justice.
But trolololol NOPE.
War criminals do get brought to justice. But it requires that their opponents fight until the war is totally won, which is not something that is often done. Most wars end in a negotiated truce. Wars like WW2 where it doesn't stop until one side surrenders unconditionally and completely submits to occupation by the other? That's less common. It happens, but not often. But when it does? Yeah, that's when you get Nuremberg trials.
These soldiers and civilians/settlers are committing war crimes on a daily/hourly basis, with the combined wars in Ukraine, Gaza, Iran, and several other places like in East Asia and Africa. I really doubt all these wars crimes will see their perpetrators convicted and punished. 😢
The Russian trolls seem to be quite active in these comments, huh?
There were some recent findings that Russian bots actively work on Lemmy too.
Did they happen to find any definitive proof that water is wet while they were at it? Shit, just look at Lemmy.ml, they LOVE to parrot Russian propaganda.
I mean actual sponsored government operation (from the looks of it), not just useful idiots
Oh sure, there are some useful idiots there, but there's no way Russia isn't amplifying their propaganda there. I can't prove it, but I'd be genuinely shocked if there are no significant Russian bot ops on .ml.
It should say: "Shocking: Russian Army keeps hunting down and killing civilianz".
Except it's not shocking.