• Pennomi@lemmy.world
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          The thing about that is there never was an era where war crimes were punished consistently.

          • rammer@sopuli.xyz
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            In fact the modern post-WW2 era is about as good as it gets. And that is indeed not much.

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                  I didn’t know that about Churchill. Thanks for the TIL. But yes, you are correct there’s a class divide when meting out justice. Though I do not fully understand that thing about not prosecuting leaders of the losing party in a war. is this maybe because the victors somehow feels some form of connection to the other side’s leaders simply because they consider themselves as “sparring partners” during the course of the war? And of course, they were not in the field themselves fighting for their lives and somehow they just view all of these as a sort of boardgame or like a D&D campaign with maps and miniature figures of tanks and army battalions. Obviously, these are just guesses of mine and I confess that I do not have a great knowledge of politics during wartime.

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          The playbook is to just claim its propaganda. The internet is so supersaturated the average person can’t vet it as true or false.