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Re:Tell HN: If You Are in Russia by ohgodplsno on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @03:13AM (#30511120)
None of your potential candidates have ever nuked any other country, which in terms of war crimes rates pretty damn high.
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Re:Tell HN: If You Are in Russia by kuboble on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @04:33AM (#30511818)
I would still rate it a magnitude below https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
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Re:Tell HN: If You Are in Russia by pcmoney on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @10:24AM (#30515262)
At the time Nuking a country wasn’t a war crime. Also fire bombing raids on other cities (eg Dresden) were actually worse than the nuclear bombing. Additionally it could be argued that the nuclear option actually killed fewer civilians than the alternative.

Strongly recommend Dan Carlins podcast on the rise and fall of imperial japan to learn more.

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