Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty.
I don't think you can perpetrate war crimes with defensive weapons, with air defense systems.
There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders.
If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
In order to prosecute war, you have to take some risk.
The concept of war crimes is an American invention.
I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.