It’s a fact.

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    8 hours ago

    “Even” US army forces were ordered to commit atrocities (for the usefulness of terror ot for the quick fix/shortcut of it), but some units did them in their own (that command may or may not have found out later about). It’s just that war is chaos, & fog of war very real and a tool. The logistics of war are insane & at every level there are just individual people prone to people things.

    Propaganda paints a picture for you and the tool to flight it is knowledge.

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        6 hours ago

        Yes - to clarify, I wasn’t disagreeing with anything I replied to.

        I broadly assume “command” knows about shit happening, it’s too many purely logistic things to just slip by (especially when whole units are involved). However I also assume that command (and historically later commands) decides if they know/knew about it (unless there is direct evidence they knew about it or ordered it).