- cross-posted to:
- news
- globalnews@vlemmy.net
raresbears ( @raresbears@lemmy.ml ) 6•1 year agoDoing war crimes to own the Russians 😎
United States and Russia never signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions probably for exactly this reason. There are plenty of war crimes United States commited over the years there is no need to accuse them of something they didn’t.
iSeth ( @iSeth@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year agoHow does that work? Is it only a war crime when committed by/against a country that signed?
CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•1 year agoThat’s usually how international law works. It only becomes mandatory when there’s a critical mass of countries that agree. Yay, “society of states in anarchy”. /s
It’s only a war crime under international law if used against civilians. But it would of been an international crime by all use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster munitions if they were part of the convention.
Potatofish ( @Potatofish@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year agoHappy to hear your better suggestions.
raresbears ( @raresbears@lemmy.ml ) 6•1 year agoNot doing war crimes
Potatofish ( @Potatofish@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year agoBrilliant.
ghost_laptop ( @gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year agoEine neue Wunderwaffe, nicht wahr?
CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 1•1 year agoAt least they’d be on the hook for their own cleanup, I guess.