Low Information Voter on Nostr: What shooting-up an ambulance looks like: ...
What shooting-up an ambulance looks like:
War crimes are not crimes because they are cruel and brutal.
(All war is cruel and brutal.)
War crimes are crimes because they are, also, counterproductive for achieving normal State strategic goals.
Attacking undefended ambulances and hospitals, whether with guided missiles, 120mm HEAT, 40mm autocannon fire, or merely automatic rifles like this time, gains zero military advantage, but motivates the enemy to fight on against your side regardless of costs because you are clearly monsters.
This is why all the (mostly-evil) governments that signed the Geneva Conventions agreed not to do it. And don't. Unless they're already committing genocide and just want to impress their own people (and others) with their power.
War crimes are not crimes because they are cruel and brutal.
(All war is cruel and brutal.)
War crimes are crimes because they are, also, counterproductive for achieving normal State strategic goals.
Attacking undefended ambulances and hospitals, whether with guided missiles, 120mm HEAT, 40mm autocannon fire, or merely automatic rifles like this time, gains zero military advantage, but motivates the enemy to fight on against your side regardless of costs because you are clearly monsters.
This is why all the (mostly-evil) governments that signed the Geneva Conventions agreed not to do it. And don't. Unless they're already committing genocide and just want to impress their own people (and others) with their power.