freediver wrote on Nov 28^th, 2022 at 2:33pm:


Probably. That doesn't mean that its translating into less war crimes though. This sound suspiciously like an attempt to shift the goalposts. Also, rape in war is not the only type of war crime.

freediver wrote on Nov 28^th, 2022 at 2:33pm:


Thats literally almost exactly what happened in WWI. Look up the civilian casualties in that war - it was bugger all. WWII then set the standard for the trends we now see in modern warfare - where civilians are far more disproportionally affected than they were in pre-WWII wars. I would imagine the rate of war crimes from then until now ebbs and flows with the rate of wars at any given time: the more wars, the more war crimes. For example I would expect we will see a spike in war crimes this year - simply due to the war that started in Ukraine. This is essentially the take home lesson from your article - overall decline in wars over the last 70+ years = overall decline in atrocities during the same period.

But there is precisely zero evidence in any of this that a) any decrease in atrocities is due to changed attitudes or b) the US policing against war-crimes has been the reason for the decrease (as per your original claim).

freediver wrote on Nov 29^th, 2022 at 7:01pm:


Not that, obviously.

I disagree with you bringing in assumptions that you cannot, or refuse to support with actual evidence. Especially the one about alleged US efforts having a meaningful impact on reducing war crimes.

freediver wrote on Nov 29^th, 2022 at 7:01pm:


Obviously irrelevant if you can't demonstrate that such well-meaning efforts have produced actual meaningful results in this sphere - yeah?

speaking of tapdancing...

freediver wrote on Dec 1^st, 2022 at 8:22am:


Do you actually believe this meaningless question somehow validates your baseless assumption that a) war crimes have gone down and b) the US has been responsible?

Do you really not understand the difference between "trying to stop war crimes" and "actually stopping war crimes"? Is it really that unreasonable to ask for some actual results for all these good intentions you keep spamming me with?

freediver wrote on Dec 1^st, 2022 at 1:03pm:


Which I already answered, if you hadn't noticed. You said yourself you only asked it "to establish what you disagree with me on" - which I already confirmed it wasn't that - remember?

So if we believe what you claim - and that this pathetic tap-dancing routine is only "to establish what I disagree with you on" - then you already have the answer - I've only pointed out exactly what I disagree with you on about a dozen times now. Consider that as "just a question" that so far you have singularly refused to answer. So don't try on this "straight answer" crap with me.

This whole time I've been trying to get you to acknowledge a) your assumptions about war crimes going down and the US being responsible is baseless and b) nothing you have said has addressed that glaring fact.

So why would you think that "establishing my views" on something entirely irrelevant to a) and b) above is useful in any way? How can it be possibly be seen as anything other than deflection? I'd rather you address for once the actual point I've been hammering on at you for about a month.

You did indeed miss it. You also forgot to ask yourself "why the hell am I even asking these idiotic questions - when I should be presenting the evidence gandalf asked for weeks ago?".

No worries then. Still, you've got a bit of time left before christmas to pull yourself together and say something remotely coherent.