PwnallthethingsBlowing up dams--even if the dam is a military object--is a specifically enumerated war crime under the Geneva Conventions, if attacking that object would cause the release of dangerous forces (specifically: flooding) that attacks or could cause severe losses to the civilian population
Jonathan Katz@Pwnallthethings Contrast this with the lionisation of the UK Dambusters raid during WWII.
njwatt@katzmandu @Pwnallthethings
ETA: I misunderstood the point he was making and it wasn’t supporting Russian war crimes
Absurd whataboutism, you should be ashamed of yourself
(Yes those were a war crime)
@njwatt @Pwnallthethings lawl. I'm all for flooding out towns of Nazis. It's just that since moving to the UK I compare the whole dambusters thing to the bombing of Dresden where at least in the US we had introspection about it.
@katzmandu @Pwnallthethings Sorry, a little touchy from arguing with tankies. I’ll edit my original reply to note that I misunderstood
@njwatt No worries. Tankes ruin everything.
Nelson@katzmandu Lots of war crimes and attacks on civilian populations throughout WWII, nobody really came out looking great there. Sorry about Dresden!
But I think we can and should demand better of governments in the present day. Past war crimes do not excuse future war crimes.
@skyfaller Oh absolutely.
Hugh Young-Bish@katzmandu @Pwnallthethings
Is this why Peter Jackson's remake of The Dam Busters movie has stalled? Not because a dog was called N*****?
Putin has already shown us who he is.
MaybeMyMonkeys@katzmandu @Pwnallthethings history is written by winners and you won’t see the losers arguing the point