It's not a strawman, it's a good point. Can you please point out records to me that there were orders (for American soldiers) in WW2 from the top down to take areas and rape, torture, and finally murder civilians in a systematic way like Putin is currently ordering to be done in Ukraine? I'm sure that it happened in some cases on a local scale from feet on the ground, but not top down like Russian top brass is ordering to happen in Ukraine.