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Japan’s “great ally”, USA, used to boil flesh off of Japanese skulls and send them home as war trophies and gifts to their sweeties back home. (rarehistoricalphotos.com)

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[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Probably not intentionally. Looking at this and saying some variation of "war is hell" or "war is pretty fucked up" as you said is extremely handwavey. War being hell doesn't mean we can't focus on individual war crimes, particularly those done by the US.

Theres a lot of people who reflexively throw up there hands and say "War is Hell" (they're swarming here) when you bring up a US war crime. But if you bring up sonething done by a designated enemy of the US people don't do that.

Its may not be intentional but its still not good

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It does add needed context though. These arent peacetime actions of civilians. These are the actions of people forced into melting pot of slaughter.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Its a war crime

[–] nick@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh yeah. I considered mentioning 9/11…. Of 1973. But suspect most people don’t know the us supported an attack on a foreign country surreptitiously. And abu ghraib, but wasn’t sure how it’s spelled.

This country is militarily fucked up, as are the cops.

There’s no whitewashing for me.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

Ah, the real 9/11 allende-rhetoric

I don't know how spell abu graib either lol