• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    … Because they were in international waters, not engaged in any combat activity, unarmed, and also the US hadn’t, and still hasn’t, actually declared war against them.

    And we, the US, made no effort to help the survivors, which is actually required by international law.

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      4 days ago

      I don’t think these make this a war crime but I’m not an expert, can you show me an article describing or explaining it as such. Like I’m not interested in whether it was right or moral (it wasn’t) but as far as I can tell it wasn’t a war crime.

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        4 days ago

        Ok.

        You’re wrong, by the way.

        And no, you don’t need an article, wikipedia should suffice.

        If you gave even half of a shit about this, and possess a brain that can write a high school book report, you could figure this out on your own.

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          3 days ago

          Consider me asking for help then. I’ve read the wikipedia article on war crimes and it says nothing about the reasons you gave. I’ve wathced a YouTube video before about war crimes that made me think that this probably wasn’t one but watching a video obviously doesn’t make me an expert and I hope you believe me when I say that I honestly want to find out whether this was a war crime or not.