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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Doing war crimes to own the Russians ๐Ÿ˜Ž

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How does that work? Is it only a war crime when committed by/against a country that signed?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That'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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Happy to hear your better suggestions.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Aren't cluster bombs a war crime?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

At least they'd be on the hook for their own cleanup, I guess.

[โ€“] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago

Eine neue Wunderwaffe, nicht wahr?

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