Andrea Junker 
Been saying this for a while, but will repeat it for emphasis: “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@Strandjunker Yeahbut America is Special and doesn't have to follow the same rules as all those plebby forriners.
Nicole ParsonsAgreed, but the defense of "I was only increasing shareholder value" was accepted as a defense for corporations.
It successfully got those corporate interests acquitted, the same ones who funded the Nazis from 1933 onwards.
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5815470-fossil-fuel-industry-accountability/
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/business/oil-liability-shield-laws-climate-lawsuits.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/06/utah-fossil-fuels-legal-shield
We can be assured that the kleptocrats of Project 2025 are laying the groundwork to escape culpability.
Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife Mellon, Seid, Uihlein
https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors/
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https://www.salon.com/2024/11/05/and-the-money-men-billionaires-are-making-the-hitler-mistake/
The financial backers who platformed the Nazis.
Hitler had lots of American friends
http://bradleywhart.com/hitlers-american-friends/
Hitler had lots of aristocratic friends
https://susanronald.com/books-panel/hitlers-aristocrats/
Hitler had lots of media friends too
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2022-04-19/newspaper-axis-six-press-barons-who-enabled-hitler
Hitler had lots of corporate friends too
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Billionaires
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19125905/
Consequences await Trump’s corporate oligarchs too
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/hitler-oligarchs-hugenberg-nazi/681584/
Lynn D@Npars01 none of the wealthy and corporate supporters of Hitler on either side of the Atlantic thought that he was a “mistake.” That was just the narrative that they invented when he started losing and they knew that they might be held accountable. Unless, we the people everywhere (I have started a preliminary list of the Canadians involved), start holding our current crop of thesearseholes to account, they will do the same again.
Charles Stross's science fiction novel Glasshouse got me interested in how The Moneyed manipulate narratives about history for self-advantage.
Why is the murder of historians & destruction of their work so critical to the powerful in the prelude to war?
Self-serving narratives about the Civil War and "Slavery is Good for You" feeds the financialization & entrenchment of inhumanity, for example.
Just like how banking & private equity hedge fund managers fund ecocide now.
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Until Rachel Maddow & Sarah Paine started discussing the role of elites in the rise of Hitler, I had never heard of how a domino of world events was set in motion by Gilded Age robber barons & their irresponsible greed.
Henry Ford should have faced trial for trading with the enemy.
90 million people died from his bigotry.
Trump & his MAGA billionaires should be facing trial for RICO and threat funding.
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Jack Smith's report underlines the betrayal of democracy by broligarchs, petrostate despots & oil oligarchs.
The international scope alone still astonishes me.
The onslaught of disinformation trying to sweep the crimes of the Epstein Class under the rug is evidence enough of the crucial role played by journalists & historians.
WhiteHotaru@Npars01 you might find the works of @chrisstoecker very interesting. His book „Männer, die die Welt verbrennen (Men who burn the world)“ analyses the different spheres of influence and their worldwide connections.
Jim@Strandjunker
Geez, since the evil one has immunity he doesn't seem to mind mass murder on any side of the equation. I hope the US military takes the right path. This is their time to stand up to immorality.
Geez, since the evil one has immunity he doesn't seem to mind mass murder on any side of the equation. I hope the US military takes the right path. This is their time to stand up to immorality.
SoftspeakThese are not faceless authoritarians.
We have to remember most of those Marines and Soldiers are young people and barely left High School, barely 18- early 20s, most still being children.
They are American youth that will need to consider the weight of their decisions for the rest of their lives.
We need to be careful because not only will this conflict take the lives of Iranian civilians it will take the lives of our young soldiers.
The real monster is the 80 year old pedophile boomer with raging diabetes wearing adult pampers ambitious about oil and hiding the crimes. He is the reason why people are going to die.
happyborg@softspeak
Sure, but it's not the footsoldiers that need to be the focus of prosecution, it's everyone in the chain of command and those at the top first.
zbrown@softspeak @Strandjunker and when considering their decisions they should remember that complicity in war crimes is still war crime, and act accordingly.
‘but they are someone's child’ is no more a defence than ‘following orders’.
Kevin Russell
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@Strandjunker well not really.... a lot of vicious murders went free.
Brian 🏴@Strandjunker this only applies to the losers of a war, the Bolshevik Soviets committed many massacres against the Poles and Ukrainians but nobody cares.
HTPC NZ@Strandjunker yeah that's because someone had the guts to try them... who is going to do that to pedo in chief & his regime?. No one is even making an attempt beforehand to even stop it from happening, from Cuck & sidecuck Jeffries, Rhinos, American people who can start a mass general strike than just organised protests over weekends?, rest of the"civilised west"?, GCC who gets the most blowback from everyone? China? Russia? rest of the world?. Hence why this regime is acting with impunity.
Sailor Anarres@Strandjunker unforuntly they then made this pointless but not punishing or even removing from power more than a handful of scapegoats.
Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈@Strandjunker yes, but accepted in some part at My Lai.
Bad people are only others.
Cameron Purdy@Strandjunker The trials of these criminals cannot begin soon enough.
R F@Strandjunker I cannot wait to see these generals courtmartialed and charged with war crimes later
DonCC@Strandjunker
thousand of felons= us military and ICE goons
thousand of felons= us military and ICE goons
Face Thumb@Strandjunker That's the whole theme of this administration.