“to commit continual war crimes “
In war, there are no “war crimes”.
Kill and destroy everything and everybody on the other side of the line. That’s not a crime, that’s war.
War is itself the crime.
Someone pulls a knife on you. They get the upper hand in the fight. Are you not going to poke their eyes out, kick em in the groin, or bite their fingers off because it’s not nice or it’s against the Marquise of Queensbury rules?
Its tough reasoning with someone whose IPhone told them that the Russians committed “war crimes”...