“Terrorist attack” IN A WAR?????!!!!!
NO SUCH THING!
The ONLY thing that matters in a war is WINNING!
You will LOSE if you fight a “woke” war.
Did the Nazis worry about killing civilians when they bombed London? No, they were the TARGET!
Did we worry about the civilians in Dresden? No, while they were not the target, they were just “in the way”.
Did we worry about our B-17 air crews or the planes themselves in bombing Germany?
NO! Because we could build the planes and train the crews faster than the Germans could shoot them down. It was just MATH! Civilian AND our military casualties were not an issue.
Was stopping Hitler and the Nazis from taking over the world one country at a time, worth “war” ?
YES!!!!! IT WAS!!!!
Vietnam? NO!, Ukraine? for Ukraine yes, for US, NO!
The winner classifies the targets both sides attacked.
The bigger the win, the more the "War Crimes" the loser committed.
What a bunch of BS.
We talk about bans on mines, bans on mercenaries, bans on cluster munitions, bans on chemical weapons, bans on napalm, bans on torture and requiring humane treatment of prisoners, we have requirements for soldiers to wear uniforms, follow the rules of land warfare (Geneva convention), we talk about the concept of a “just war,” and “proportionality in war,” and now you talk about how there are no rules?
It’s real simple. We’re all for rules when we’re the red coats (the big conventional force), until it benefits us not to follow rules (when we fight an non-conventional war).
But that begs the question, what exactly separates you from the folks we held at GITMO for years?
PS, the NAZIs had huge stockpiles and an advantage in the chemical warfare realm. They invented some of the nerve agents! They never used them in the war: https://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i41/Nazi-origins-deadly-nerve-gases.html. They invented Tabun in 1937, the first practical nerve agents.
PSS, the NAZIs held our POWs and despite our BS Hollywood films treated them right for the most part, until the wars end when everything fell apart and even the Germans were without food and diseases started to break out... The Germans held ~ 94,000 US POW! Far more than most people realize: https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/u/us-prisoners-war-civilian-american-citizens-captured.html#:~:text=In%20addition%20to%20these%20casualties,Prisoners%20of%20War%20(POWs).&text=Germany%20held%20almost%2094%2C000%20U.S.%20POWs%2C%20and%20Japan%20held%20over%2027%2C000. Kurt Vonnegut was a US POW in Germany.
You would be the first one crying faul and talking about “crimes against humanity” (another slogan we like to use which implies rules) if it were the other way around.
Rules for warfare? Got it. I’m sure both sides (US and Russia) have broken the “rules”.