183 points

Isn’t pretending you’re civilian like a war crime or something?

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Also pretending you are a medic is a big nono on the Geneva’s convention.

It looks like they are trying to get the war crime bingo.

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Geneva’s checklist

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They’ve had it for awhile, they’re going for platinum at this point.

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61 points

Yes, it’s known as perfidy.

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Also killing wounded/unconscious/incapacitated/hospitalised/trying-to-surrender enemies is a war crime. They just don’t give a fuck because nobody stops them.

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Yes, but I haven’t seen the footage, I’m so incredibly busy you see. So I couldn’t possibly remark on whether or not this is or was a war crime. And, actually, it’s really quite gauche of you to ask, to be perfectly honest.

Edit: context

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This doesn’t bode well for Palestinian side

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90 points

Just some more casual war crimes…

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Casual war crimes are in this season.

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This is one of those war crimes you can know very little about war crimes and still identify. It’s just that fucked.

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It’s called “perfidy”

Quoting Wikipedia:

In the context of war, perfidy is a form of deception in which one side promises to act in good faith with the intention of breaking that promise once the unsuspecting enemy is exposed.

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Well that’s certainly a war crime. Wonder if the rest of the world will look the other way on this too.

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Oil is involved so… yes.:-(

Remember the Republicans in the USA are still salivating over how to stop funding to curb Russian aggression while simultaneously wanting to fund Israel.

We went from being one step away to joining with Ukraine to now being one step away from joining Israel.

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They’re just doing it so blatantly so they can show everyone they can get away with it. It’s the same reason Putin kills his rivals in ways that obviously implicate him, he wants people to know it was him and nobody can do anything about it.

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Nothing has changed since since 2002. Every accusation is a confession.

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