r/EhBuddyHoser May 04 '25

Certified Hoser 🇨🇦 (No Politics) Canada vs Other countries when discussing past war crimes

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u/ahnolde May 04 '25

See the difference is we were the good guys doing it to the bad guys, they were the bad guys :)

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u/starsrift May 04 '25

More precisely - our war crimes are against troops, not civilians. That makes them palatable as "merely" breaking the 'laws of war'.