• Maven (famous)
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    7 months ago

    The US does a lot of war crimes. They’ve just been historically more powerful than the people who prosecute war crimes.

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      7 months ago

      They also aren’t a member of many international legal bodies and thus do not consider themselves bound by international law. Frustratingly, they are basically right - international law is opt-in.