Why do war crimes exist?

>infinity pill
Let ZOGbots run free in the USA

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Because doing so will only make the enemy even more pissed at you. The world exists outside of the US, and everyone is watching.

And also give your potential enemies a reason to get non-aligned nations to oppose you, to put sanctions on your ass and such. Or the worst case scenario another country steps in to fight you for all the unnecessary deaths you caused.

To fight war as you mentioned makes us no different from monkeys with fancy toys. Are you a human with standards, or are you nothing but an animal with fancy toys at your disposal?
Making enemies out of more than half the world is dumb when you just wanted to deal with a single country in the first place.

>Making enemies out of more than half the world is dumb
lol what would they do about it?

It's what keeps us apart from literal savages. If you want to act like a nigger then go to Central Africa or the Middle East.

>If you want to act like a nigger then go to Central Africa or the Middle East.
But that's exactly where we're sending them...

Cost us trillions more than we have already spent fighting this war.

>not blowing yourself up for lord Jesus Christ.
Also we don’t do that shit because behaving like a savage is dumb.
You’re a fucking brainlet. Light yourself on fire.

>I'm not saying nuke cities but why can't we just wipe out villages in Iraq, bomb mosques with warplanes, and do some looting, raping and killing?

lol you did tho, implying america cares about war crimes and implying you would win wars even if you killed everyone. Look at Vietnam. USA droopped more bombs on some fucking asian rice farmers then they did on the nazis and japan combined. They had specops death squads killing whole villages. They used firebombing and agent orange. They still lost. Same with Korea. The USA destroyed every city in north korrea and they still got btfo back to the DMZ line. you would still lose because you are cowardly burgers.

>Dog shits on the carpet
>I shit on the carpet harder than him to establish my dominance.

Fuck you up economically.

Your war with Iraq or whatever that costs a few trillions to run?
Well, lets add a few more trillions in economical loss on top of that and make your people suffer because you and your soldiers can't behave. Your people will feel the pain and fuck you up with protests and such, potentially costing you more losses and also forcing you to use your manpower, which you are already using to deal with that country you're warring with.

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In this amoral scenario tho, what we just looted any country attempting economic sanctions?

>The laws of war are prevent the military from winning!
The Germans tried the whole "maximum brutality" thing, it didn't work.
At all.

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>Successful civilizations have done this in the past and they did fine. The Romans did it, the Huns did it, the Mongols did it, even the Muslims did it.

Is this what a broscience understanding of history looks like?

>BUT WADABOUTVIETNAM

>implying they don't already

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We lack the man power

>w-w-why don't we do really bad stuff to other people?
we do, but we do not institutionalize such practices.
Because when we start doing THAT to THEM, other people will do it to US. Nobody remains the topdog forever.

can we please bring back imperialism?
these savages will never govern themselves successfully.
give the ultimatum that we will only help countries if they agree to become a part of the US,
and we will help any country who agrees to this.
i garunfuckingtee you we get africa and south america for free.
set up one-way borders, americans can go in and build it up but they can't leave until they become civilized.

Burgers should be gassed

To prevent unnecessary escalation.

Most of the Rules are simple courtesy and encourages useful behavior. POW rules encourage enemies to surrender rather than fight to the last. Fighting to the last man is always a costly endeavor on both sides.

Other rules like No Destroying Landmarks and limiting collateral damage is a matter of money. There's no point on fighting over ruins. Similarly, some weapons like poison gas is simply uncontrollable. You never know where the wind is going to blow the murder cloud.

Finally, you want to avoid making more enemies when already in a fight. Remember, a Pyrric Victory means you're not going to be ready for the next fight.

What did he mean by this?

Dude, just start making synthetic oil. Cut the flow of money into the middle east and the problem with solve it'self.

>Successful civilizations have done this in the past and they did fine.
Do you see any of those civilizations left?

Yeah, jungle war is different than desert war...

it was a different time.

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We shouldn't be either, fag.

Imperium Romanun likely thought the same. What could go wrong?

War is an extension of politics. Politics in the west means making the soft moral people happy while also trying to expand your reach. It's a trade off.

I wanna see what happens if we put an infantry division in detroit and tell them they’re in Nigeria.

Ok, so say you’re in a fight. You’ve beaten the absolute daylights out of your opponent, and he’s backed into a corner, on the ground, broken down and crying. He’s given up, hes beaten. Do you,

>A. Go maximum brutality and start trying to curbstomp his skull to dust
>B. Give him one last good kick and back the fuck off

Because lemme tell you. You pick option A and he’s got two options, primally. He can either, let himself die and give in, which i assure you no animal on earth will do, or he can put every last drop of effort, energy, and gallons of adrenaline dump his body has to lash out and stop you. If you back up and let him live though, you’ve still won the fight, but now its his best survival instinct to give up and stop trying to hurt you.

Its the same thing on a mass psychological scale. If we kick in the door and start genociding, the populace is gonna catch on quick. It is in their #1 survival instinct that “oh, shit, that army just killed every man woman and child in the town over when they tried to surrender. Hence. We cannot surrender” and now you’re going to have a LOT more people arming and fortifying, as if theyre going to die theyre going to atleast make it hard as possible for the enemy to kill them. In the same way a cornered animal will put every last drop of energy it has to not being killed, so will a group of social animals with their backs to the wall.

Imagine, for example, you heard a combined world force had teamed up to eliminate the USA. News reports start flowing in about death squads marching through New York, killing anyone they see. You start to see video of residential areas being firebombed and dirty bombed. You see lines of children and mothers being executed by firing line. On the tv speaks the enemy general, talking of our pending total defeat and annihalation.

Are you

>A. Gonna sit and cry, oh woe is me guess i’ll die
>B. Do fucking anything to prepare for the incoming doom

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Think Chechnya. Russians say hey be our state, theyre like nah bro were good get out, Russians say ok fuck you and start an UNENDING RAIN OF BOMBS AND SHELLS on the most populated city center.

Now, instead of, as in your fantasy, the Chechens getting terrified and submitting to their new overlords, what do they do?

>GET OUT

the populace goes hella radicalized and the Chechen resistance becomes ten times thicker and motivated. Their country is being destroyed around them, of course theyre going to give every last drop to try and save it.

Now yes, the Russians won. After an ungodly number of casualties, and they won a shitty bombed out hellhole with a terrified populace.

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