• Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

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

    • Arete@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      2 years 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.

        • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
          22·
          2 years ago

          Yeah but not if you just deny it. The right have great succes denying genocide too. 6 million 6 schmilion amirite?

    • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years 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.