• PhilipTheBucketOPA
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    3 days ago

    Killing children or torturing innocent people are absolutely war crimes. When talking about the Ukraine conflict specifically, those two are actually the most common ones that I think of (in addition to destroying civilian infrastructure like hospitals or power stations).

    Ukraine isn’t doing either of those things, on any scale that’s relevant, and I don’t think they should start, for reasons I’ve already touched on. They won’t have all that much of a productive effective on fiercely “fighting the war.” That’s actually exactly a big part of what makes them war crimes (where something like blowing up an oil refinery is not.)

    • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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      2 days ago

      Yes those two things are war crimes but war crimes is a general term and doesnt specifically mean killing children and torturing people.