Carmakazi

A logical and strategic justification. Still a literal warcrime.

Not this decade, but during the battles of Fallujah we gave the civilians there 24 hours to evacuate, and then after that the official rules of engagement were pretty damn close to "everyone left is presumed to be an Al Qaeda militant." They were allowed to shoot people with phones or radios in their hands on sight. We also bombed the fuck out of that city, including with white phosphorous. We know WP was used because there was a recorded friendly fire incident with it.

And all of this was basically reprisal for the killings of those four Blackwater mercenaries.

The laws on warcrimes have always been a sort of mutual agreement, and they often end up being broken in reciprocity. One side commits perfidy, the other side is less inclined to take prisoners alive in return, as happened in the WWII Pacific theater.

I think its naive to think that there can ever be such a thing as a "good clean war" with the international community acting as objective and powerful referees throwing around red cards.

Russia hasn't given a fuck about UXO in civilian areas for the entirety of the war, so I don't see this as being an escalation. It's their land, they'll have incentive to take caution in their use.

Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if developed countries start refusing entry even to educated Americans on general principle. We fucking suck, and we've burned a lot of what little good will we have as a people.

And even if you did get in, you would probably have to deal with that animosity from the locals.

The foreign conquest comes later once they've seized total power and neutralized the internal opposition.

They're not going to just sit on a dozen carrier battle groups and the largest functioning nuclear arsenal chief.

They will use the newly incarcerated immigrants as slave labor as apportioned by the 13th amendment.

This isn't a debate of legal or logical consistency, this is a power play. Investigations and charges of treason are for the opposition, not the Party and those loyal.

Last I heard the US Navy is the single biggest polluting organization in the world, with all that bunker fuel they burn in addition to their aviation program.

Watch "Don't Talk to the Police"

He's rotten and party loyal enough that he'll probably be around until the end of the regime.

Theoretically the judicial should be considered nonpartisan and objective when talking about this but we know that's a load of crap now.

I think the seeming lack of bad will against him stems from the fact that he didn't kill anyone but himself. Just a righteous (or rather self-righteous) rampage of property damage.

...except that he absolutely intended to kill people considering the arsenal of firearms and shooting ports in his contraption.