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> WWII changed that

Bullshit. Who was prosecuted for the firebombing of Dresden or Tokyo?

How many of the German rocketry experts scooped up during Paperclip were convicted?

How many US military members have been delivered to the ICJ?




> Bullshit. Who was prosecuted for the firebombing of Dresden or Tokyo?

Neither of these is comparable for what Germans did and you know it.

> How many US military members have been delivered to the ICJ?

US did not signed membership.


> Neither of these is comparable for what Germans did and you know it.

A couple tens of thousands of dead civilians seems pretty serious to me.

By your metric, how many dead civilians are sufficient to warrant prosecution?

> US did not signed membership.

The US did sign membership, and then withdrew in 1986 because it didn't want to be bound by rulings.




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