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If we were serious about crimes against civilians, much certainly so but we all know this is just a big farce to make revenge look defensible

In just and fair world, yes. In the real world we live in, not so much.

Examples of action nobody was tried for, Axis or Allies: Strategic terror bombing of civilians and civilian infrastructure, unrestricted submarine warfare.

I can’t say whether they should have, but I can say that part of the reason international law is a joke among friends is that it was designed such that this would be the question.

The US committed atrocities in the war, and it also took extreme measures in the war which shouldn’t be judged as harshly. But we don’t have a meaningful framework to reconcile those because reconciling them is intentionally excluded from the framework.

That wasn't my intent. You mean the US submarine commanders? Probably not, no..