Andrea Junker 21h ago
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.
Show threadSoftspeak

@Strandjunker

These 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.

Apr 7 at 9:06pmWeb
Show threadhappyborg18h ago

@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.

@Strandjunker

Show threadzbrown2h ago

@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’.