• Pennomi@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    When entire civilian populations are bombed or starved, then yes. The US is not free of war crimes. They’re merely immune from the consequences.

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      6 months ago

      Not just the US. Chechnya was invaded by Russia. German civilians were bombed by the UK and USSR.

      In fact, it’s hard to find a large-scale modern war that didn’t cause thousands of civilian casualties.

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        6 months ago

        Absolutely, there were millions of civilian casualties in WWII. The difference here is that there have been, according to Israel, only 273 soldiers killed in ground operation combat vs the 13,000 civilians killed on Gaza’s side. (According to the new, lower estimates.) This is not so much a war as a one-sided beatdown.

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          6 months ago

          Are you really suggesting that every asymmetrical war that is conducted successfully is genocide? O.o

          • Pennomi@lemmy.world
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            6 months ago

            No, I’m saying that if a nation has such a huge advantage they also have more responsibility to select targets carefully so as to not kill noncombatants.