"The decision will make it possible to hold Russia's senior political and military leadership to account specifically for the crime of aggression, not merely for its consequences," Zelensky said.
  • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Russia has a full list of tu quoque arguments. What are they going to do about it?

    The charter did not recognize a tu quoque defense—asking for exoneration on the grounds that the Allies had committed the same crimes with which the defendants were charged.

    Fleet admiral Chester W. Nimitz testified that the United States Navy had also used unrestricted submarine warfare against Japan in the Pacific; Dönitz’s counsel successfully argued that this meant that it could not be a crime.[183][184] The judges barred most evidence on Allied misdeeds from being heard in court.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque_defense