We didn’t used to do that sort of thing. I don’t remember anyone calling Hitler a war criminal during WWII. After victory over Germany and Japan, we occupied the countries, and then we set up Nuremburg and what ever we called the one in Japan, had some war crimes trials, got some guilty verdicts, did some death penalties.
But we didn’t go about calling enemy heads of state war criminals while the war was going on, be it a hot or a cold war. Putin probably deserves it, invading a smaller, peaceful, neighbor and slaughtering its civilians is a horrible thing to do.
Plus, we won’t be able to put Putin on trial until we defeat and occupy Russia, which is a tall order. So unless something strange happens, Biden’s accusation of war crimes remains at the level of political propaganda, rather than the operation of an impartial justice system.
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