Americans who mistreated Iraqi #POWs were #CourtMartialed, #convicted, & #sentenced to time in military #prisons. The British still agonize over the past behavior of their soldiers in Northern Ireland, & the French over theirs in Algeria.

#Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine & #Hamas’s surprise attack on the #civilians of #Israel are both blatant rejections of that #RulesBasedWorldOrder, & they herald something new.

#war #LawsOfWar #WarCrimes #PoliticalViolence #HumanRights #geopolitics