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[–] 48 points 3 years ago (7 children)

One of the major prerequisites for people to get charged with war crimes, is to lose the war.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    One of the major prerequisites

    Not the only one though as Afghanistan was indeed lost.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (5 children)

    But it took a long time. Long enough for people to forget.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

    It's more that, win or lose, the United States never had its sovereignty threatened by Afghanistan. They could potentially have continued supporting terrorists and lobbing attacks against the US, but the US government wasn't going to collapse because of it as long as they did literally anything.

    Without that, it's pretty unlikely to see a major US politician in front of the ICC no matter how much they deserve to be there.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (2 children)

    The US had total air and naval superiority in Afghanistan, so them having a nuke is irrelevant.

    The US also did not "lose" in Afghanistan, but people always turn into dipshits when that's brought up.

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