> Innocent people being killed can sometimes totally be consistent with the rules of war.

The US attacks people and countries without declaring war.

If anyone did this to the US, can you imagine the butt-hurt response?

The majority of the West has implicitly or explicitly ceded their national defense and warfighting capabilities to the USA. The comparison between USA and “other countries” isn’t really valid, as the situations are vastly different

	▲	jampekka an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		What does that mean? That USA is somehow killing people all around the world as a puppet or Iceland or something?
	▲	AlecSchueler an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The West isn't the world, though. China could start taking out random boats next week.
	▲	lostlogin an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		US exceptionalism doesn’t make killing ok.