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- SoupBrick ( @SoupBrick@pawb.social ) 30•4 months ago
Ya know what, I think I am ok with punishing people leading war crime efforts. I sure do wonder what the party of “tough on crime” thinks about the ongoing genocide?
- Dreizehn ( @Dreizehn@kbin.social ) 18•4 months ago
The ICC is 100% correct.
- tenchiken ( @tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 17•4 months ago
- taanegl ( @taanegl@beehaw.org ) 14•4 months ago
Ok, can we take the CIA to court? There are a couple of executives in old folks homes that arguably deserve to be rolled into an active volcano.
- umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) 14•4 months ago
but but biden is trying so hard to save the palestinians!1!!
- Em Adespoton ( @adespoton@lemmy.ca ) 13•4 months ago
Wait… the US is currently indiscriminately bombing civilians who have nowhere to go, while denying them access to basic necessities?
- TrippyFocus ( @TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml ) 16•4 months ago
Maybe not actively but there’s a lot of past presidents that should be charged if the world was fair. Most obvious example is Bush.
- The Bard in Green ( @thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz ) 11•4 months ago
How about Reagon / Carter? El Salvadore Death Squads? School of the Americas?
- TrippyFocus ( @TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml ) 9•4 months ago
Oh 100% they should be too, I just went with the easiest recent one.
- Em Adespoton ( @adespoton@lemmy.ca ) 3•4 months ago
Jr or Sr?
- deadbeef79000 ( @deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ) 6•4 months ago
First one then the other
- Maeve ( @Maeve@kbin.social ) 3•4 months ago
Only by proxy, so no blood on their hands. It’s a psychopathological reasoning, but here we are
- Maeve ( @Maeve@kbin.social ) 10•4 months ago
There would be a lot of war crimes the USA can be charged for, retroactively. I think this is not just about Israel.
- NoneOfUrBusiness ( @NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social ) 7•4 months ago
Not would. Remember when the ICC tried to investigate US war crimes in Afghanistan?
- Maeve ( @Maeve@kbin.social ) 3•4 months ago
Yes. If it wasn’t so horrific, it would be comical.
- electric_nan ( @electric_nan@lemmy.ml ) 7•4 months ago
God willing!
- arquebus_x ( @arquebus_x@kbin.social ) 4•4 months ago
Except the U.S. is not a party to the ICC and therefore not subject to its jurisdiction. It should be, but it’s not. This is bullshit fear-mongering over something that literally cannot happen, in order to distract people from the thing that will and should be happening.
- FriendBesto ( @FriendBesto@lemmy.ml ) 1•4 months ago
Neither is Israel. But even just the optics of the ICC ruling on Israel is good for the rest of the world to see. Honestly, same for the case of the USA. Most USA Presidents are textbook case war criminals. Only because their military operations help the USA itself geopolitically it does not make it generally ethnical. Most Americans in this perspective ate very biased. But the rest of the world sees it.
Over 1 million Iraqis are dead because of Bush Jr. actions and their downstream, Obama ordered drone kills above any other previous President, many of those killing civilians, USA has destabilised dozens of governments over the course of the 20th century, Project Condor is a perfect example.
- MeetInPotatoes ( @MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml ) English3•4 months ago
“Oh nooooo…anyway…”
- sincle354 ( @sincle354@kbin.social ) 3•4 months ago
Yes