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| | :::::::::::::Of course not. It is the US that has violated international law and international norms of conduct. [https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/news/2023/brown-university-estimates-more-45-million-people-have-died-wars-911 Brown University estimates the US has killed more than 4.5 million people in wars since 9/11.] A boon for the [[MIC]], but the American people will be held to account. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Give Peace a Chance!'']]</sup> 21:57, October 6, 2023 (EDT) | | :::::::::::::Of course not. It is the US that has violated international law and international norms of conduct. [https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/news/2023/brown-university-estimates-more-45-million-people-have-died-wars-911 Brown University estimates the US has killed more than 4.5 million people in wars since 9/11.] A boon for the [[MIC]], but the American people will be held to account. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Give Peace a Chance!'']]</sup> 21:57, October 6, 2023 (EDT) |
| | ::::::::::::::The Unted States has been illegally - even under US law - occupying significant territory of Syria for almost a decade. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Give Peace a Chance!'']]</sup> 22:00, October 6, 2023 (EDT) | | ::::::::::::::The Unted States has been illegally - even under US law - occupying significant territory of Syria for almost a decade. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Give Peace a Chance!'']]</sup> 22:00, October 6, 2023 (EDT) |
| − | :::::::::::::::I agree that the US has been illegally occupying Syria for almost a decade. Can we also agree that both the Russians and the Ukrainians have committed war crimes in Ukraine since February 2022? | + | :::::::::::::::I agree that the US has been illegally occupying Syria for almost a decade. Can we also agree that both the Russians and the Ukrainians have committed war crimes in Ukraine since February 2022? {{unsigned|MayGodBless}} |
| | + | ::::::::::::::::Ukraine and NATO since 2014; Ukraine, NATO, and Russia since 2022. Now there are two different types of [[war crimes]] - those that happen on orders from the top, and those that occur on the ground in a moment of heat and emotion by combatants without orders or instructions from their commanders. I dare say you'd be hard pressed to prove war crimes committed by the Russian Federation from the top, on the other hand, beginning with [[Maudan coup]] in 2014, and following through with events like the [[Bucha massacre]] planned by [[MI6]], Western terrorist attacks on the [[Crimean bridge]] and [[Nordstream pipeline]], the targeting of schools and hospitals, etc, have been almost exclusively on the NATO/Ukraine side. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Give Peace a Chance!'']]</sup> 22:11, October 6, 2023 (EDT) |
| | ::::::::And the US is far and away the most powerful member of the UN. Russia does not come close. | | ::::::::And the US is far and away the most powerful member of the UN. Russia does not come close. |
| | ::::::::When the US was founded, the [[Constitution]] made clear that the capital would not be part of any state, and thus [[Washington, DC]] was created. When the UN was founded, the members unanimously approved putting its permanent seat of government in – you guessed it – the United States. [[User:MayGodBless|MayGodBless]] ([[User talk:MayGodBless|talk]]) 15:14, October 6, 2023 (EDT) | | ::::::::When the US was founded, the [[Constitution]] made clear that the capital would not be part of any state, and thus [[Washington, DC]] was created. When the UN was founded, the members unanimously approved putting its permanent seat of government in – you guessed it – the United States. [[User:MayGodBless|MayGodBless]] ([[User talk:MayGodBless|talk]]) 15:14, October 6, 2023 (EDT) |