Hmm. Cuck!Larssen wrote:
I have to say that all the disdain particularly from anglo-saxon governments over all the purported russian war crimes leaves me very pessimistic about some things.
Of course any war crime is terrible, by now there's plenty video evidence of some beyond shocking stuff. Yet it's as though the governments most front and center in the accusations are suffering from complete and total amnesia over their own very recent warfaring conduct. How many civilians were wantonly murdered in the thousands of air and drone strikes? What about beyond gruesome stories like the Mahmudiyah rape and killings? Yes, the perpetrators in this case eventually court-martialed, but I doubt anyone here will have recollection of those events.
In any case, I'm specifically talking about the US government most of all. Suddenly it loves to pontificate about international norms and rules, and the state department released a formal accusation of criminal conduct to Russia with the insistence that they will pursue accountability 'using every tool available including criminal prosections'. That it will share info with international organisations as appropriate.
The US doesn't even recognise the legitimacy of the International Criminal Court and in the past State released extremely combative statements in terms of what would happen if an American might ever be indicted there. The boundless (and imo disgusting) hypocrisy can't escape anyone here.
It's also indicative of the US's personality disorder in any case. Once a republican president enters the stage, this will suddenly be forgotten again.
You would need to go back to Vietnam to find anything like the massacres that took place in Ukraine.
