Dresden?
Tokyo fire raids?
Hamburg?
Koln?
Hiroshima?
Nakasaki?
>> Dresden . . .
That was my reaction too. When a nation goes to war, bad stuff happens. Over and over. War is about breaking things and killing people. Using labels like “war criminal” is silly because the leader of any nation that goes to war is then probably a war criminal.
So unless we can stop all wars, the label is not much more than a political act to rev up your population to keep supporting a war.