President Joe Biden condemned by the move by the International Criminal Court to seek arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, saying that there was “no equivalence” between that country’s actions and those of Hamas. Earlier today, the ICC issued a legal report in which a panel of international law experts supported a prosecutor’s conclusion that there […]
That’s not true at all. In a Counter Insurgency environment against a group like HAMAS it’s even more important not to match them. You kill them by killing their ideas. And you do that by being demonstrably better so they can’t recruit anymore.
And with Russia you don’t do it either. You want the prisoners for their information and because you can win fights easier if they know they can surrender. That doesn’t change just because Russia decided to commit war crimes.
You’re still stuck in the pop science idea of Realism being some macho do anything ideology. Even as you quote from the realist facet of the modern theory of using all 4 schools. There’s a reason the United States, EU, and China haven’t pursued pure realism. Israel isn’t going to suddenly make it work. And in many ways they’ve already lost this war. They’ve destroyed their international reputation and there will be economic repercussions for them at the very least. At most, they’ve opened the door to a single state solution just based on their public treatment of Palestine.