The terms of what’s considered “war crimes” have changed… pray that they don’t change any further!

MAD is only a nuclear deterrent. Unless/until someone uses a nuclear weapon, WW3 would be a conventional war, like Ukraine. If Putin were to start invading NATO countries, the response from NATO would be conventional — nobody who isn’t insane and suicidal would choose to launch nukes, unless they genuinely believed that they are being nuked (which makes nuclear terrorism a real existential threat).

What MAD means is nuclear powers are unlikely to be physically invaded, especially in areas of known nuclear weapon installations — a nuclear power believing it is facing imminent defeat, or nuclear attack, is most likely to use them; dictators like Putin are sociopathic enough to take the entire species with them.

They were for most of Israels history, and they taught the current gen both nationalism, and how to treat the “others”.

It would be a victim complex if they actually believed their stance, but it’s really just a classic case of the abused becoming the abuser… or, more accurately, the genocided becoming the genocider.

190 is ~0.006% of the UNRWA’s 30k staff. Withholding aid from 1.5 million refugees over this is fucking criminal.

https://lemmy.world/comment/7127597

I just learned that the UNRWA has 30,000 employees; most of which are Palestinian refugees.

It’s practically unavoidable to employ 0.5% of all Palestinians and not have some be involved in the largest attack in decades, but cutting aid to an org of 30k, that supports 1.5 million refugees, because of the actions of ~0.006% of the staff is completely ruthless and criminal.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the allegations were true, but at this point I also wouldn’t be surprised if the allegations were not only false, but intentionally false.

Working to defund a Palestinian refugee support org at the time they’re needed the most — when 1.5 million people are relying on them for survival — would be a highly sadistic act of genocide.

Per conflict. Not combined. Even the larger conflicts that were relatively indiscriminate took a long time to ramp up and kill so many civilians.

Ukraine recorded the same amount in ~18 months.

The Iraq war averaged the same amount (20-30k) per YEAR.

Even Vietnam averaged about 10-15k civilians in the same amount of time.

Also, the population of all of the above is/was 10-20x larger than Gaza.

They were so careful they killed more civilians in the last 3 months than were killed in the first 3 months of almost every war since WW2.

I’m genuinely surprised that nothing has changed after no effort was made to change things. The fuck?

The US doesn’t even declare war anymore. Actions that used to only fly during wars are now the default “peace” state.

That’s the great part about being the sole superpower… You can have drones circling the airspace of “enemy” countries 24/7, for decades — bomb wherever you want, whenever you want, and the entire international justice system just lets you do it because international justice™️ is owned and operated by you and your allies.

When you’re a superpower, they let you grab em by the justice system.

*to feed and house that many humans to a high standard of living, housing, and nutrition — with public/shared transport fulfilling all their transportation needs — and nobody having to work more than 30 hours a week.

Turns out that a single payer, socialised, universal healthcare system is the cheapest and most efficient path to quality healthcare.

All it took was most of the world proving that for decades, yet still a significant portion of the human population are dumb enough to believe a privatised profit model could improve things.

They will never hear this, and won’t care even if they do.

If they actually cared about what Jesus or the religious establishment said, they’d already be socialist.

a) That wasn’t genocide. That was imperialism to enrich American corporations.

b) When you’re a superpower they let you grab em by the pussy.

You’d be amazed with what can be accomplished when labour is a few $ a day and close to slavery. That’s why capitalism tries to suppress wage growth as much as possible.

This funding is not “for” Ukraine. It’s for the military industrial complex — most of that money stayed in the US.

I personally haven’t supported 9/10 of US military actions since WW2, but Ukraine is a rare case where I do. So tell me… There are hundreds of billions in other spending that should be scrutinized before Ukraine — Why do you think we should let Putin invade and seize other countries?

We’d absolutely do something about it — die!

They must thank Allah every day for America’s Oligarchy gifting the military industrial complex trillions of dollars of tax payer money, and occupying their country for decades, to end up stuck in the same prison as their parents… Instead of the darkest timeline — universal healthcare and climate action!

Yeah, there are no good guys in war… Just different levels of crimes and justification from the obscene, to the grey.

The Allies were responding to aggressors that had invaded and “terror bombed” dozens of countries for years, killing millions of civilians, while maintaining extremely high domestic support throughout… Doesn’t make terror bombing their civilians right, but it was more justifiable in context than anything the invaders did.