Burnt Fish
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- Dec 7, 2020
If you want to be technical, going after infrastructure like power plants etc needs to be pretty extensively justified as being military serving infrastructure and not civilian serving in order for it to pass muster of the Geneva conventions.What fantasy land do these people live in? Since when is hitting the infrastructure in battle a war crime? It's the first thing you do.
There are probably some plants and stuff that you could make that distinction with inside of Iran, but if we were to actually go all out and hit all of them we would absolutely be in violation of the Geneva convention.
The question to ask isn't "how is this a war crime?" the question to ask is "So what if it is?"
There is obviously arguments to be made about limiting some things in war, certain kinds of weapons, not intentionally bombing civilians (as in specifically targeting them, not collateral damage) etc.
but in a lot of cases getting your hands tied too heavily with "International law" and Restrictive rules of engagement end up only benefiting an enemy who does not give a fuck about such things themselves. and even more will weaponize those rules against you to have the world hold you to standards they themselves do not meet.
In my book Iran's already struck at power plants and water infrastructure in countries like Kuwait, Kuwait is our ally, and so we shall return the same upon Iran in kind. As for "war crimes" that would incur, That'll be for the Hague to sort out (they won't because they are toothless and hold no actual power over us)