Over the weekend the Western press was blasting Russia and Syria for alleged war crimes in their assault on the terrorist controlled part of East Aleppo. A typical headline from
The Washington Post reads "US accuses Russia of 'barbarism' and war crimes in Syria." Meanwhile, the
Long War Journal declares "US hits another Islamic State chemical weapons facility in Iraq." UK's foreign minister Boris Johnson is crying foul that Russia should be
investigated for war crimes. The Western media of course is now in high gear fanning the flames, charging Putin and Assad with war crimes due to apparent heavy civilian losses. Reports range up to
139 casualties this weekend alone. If readers take these latest proclamations at face value, they would automatically conclude that America and its Western vassals are the true holier-than-thou good guys in the Middle East fighting the bad terrorists Islamic State while Russia and Syria as the US demonized enemies are the ultimate bad guys mercilessly committing crimes against humanity.
Let's first address the report that the US bombed a terrorist chemical weapons factory in Iraq.
Hands down the US is the single biggest perpetrator ever using chemical warfare in crimes against humanity. Between dropping two atomic bombs when Truman knew that a defeated Japan was already
wanting to surrender to the unprecedented tonnage of napalm bombs used over Tokyo in the final year of World War II (in just a two day period in March 1945, the US dropped
over 1500 tons of napalm bombs), to the
even more napalm used at
125 tons a day for three years less than a decade later to kill upwards of
5 million Koreans during America's first undeclared war, followed by
400,000 more tons of napalm and
20 million gallons of Agent Orange dumped during the Vietnam War that eliminated up to
3.4 million South East Asians (Vietnam Red Cross estimated
4.8 million deaths from Agent Orange alone), the US has a very long history of flagrantly violating international law banning chemical and biological warfare ever since the
1925 Geneva Protocol to its 1993 renewal. Not that a law ever stopped US exceptionalism from wrongdoing, those wars were just the beginning.
Comment: We hope this lawsuit goes somewhere, but it's likely that none of the executives involved will go to jail or be punished in any meaningful way for their actions. That's fascism for you: corporations are protected, the labor force oppressed.