• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Frankly, genocide or not, there should be consequences for the high amount of civilian casualties in those US conflicts.

    • Arete@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Sure, but that’s a moral argument relating to the justification of different wars, weighing of collateral damage, etc. This is a legal case based on the genocide convention of 1948, and if there is no genocide, it falls apart.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Nobody credible is estimating the US killed this many civilians this quickly. It took years of small incidents adding up. We also had a habit of prosecuting soldiers who committed obvious warcrimes.