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minus-squarevlad@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48·1 year agoWhat I’ve learned about “war crimes” is that it doesn’t matter what you do as long as you don’t lose. And if you win you get to punish the loser for their war crimes and pretend like you didn’t commit any.
minus-squaremanapropos@lemmy.basedcount.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·1 year agoJapan lost and they still deny the horrible, Holocaust-tier atrocities they committed during WW2
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 months agoIDK, they unconditionally surrendered. That pretty much never happens.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months agoAnd yet we didn’t execute any of the people responsible.
minus-squareEpicFailGuy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·11 months ago“History get written by the victors”
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down7·11 months agoA statement routinely banned in serious historical communities because of the mountains of evidence against it
What I’ve learned about “war crimes” is that it doesn’t matter what you do as long as you don’t lose. And if you win you get to punish the loser for their war crimes and pretend like you didn’t commit any.
Japan lost and they still deny the horrible, Holocaust-tier atrocities they committed during WW2
They didn’t lose hard enough
IDK, they unconditionally surrendered. That pretty much never happens.
And yet we didn’t execute any of the people responsible.
“History get written by the victors”
A statement routinely banned in serious historical communities because of the mountains of evidence against it