• JohnSmith@feddit.uk
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    11 hours ago

    Isn’t this just another one to the pile of his war crimes? It’s remarkable how Boris Johnson somehow managed to be even shittier than the war criminal Blair.

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      33 minutes ago

      Technically. And honestly in this mess that is all we can use.

      It would only be considered a crime after it happened. If blairs organisation helped in the implementation.

      Planning is basically writing a well researched book. Of course that is a stretched comparison. But accurate as for as equivalents is concerned. Only real difference is the book would be public. Planning is kept top secret. But that in no way makes writing it a crime alone.

      If you wrote a story based on some meglamainiac American president committing actions seen as war crimes. No matter how accurate the set up or understanding of military preparedness in the real world. Or how involved in talking to that president or staff.

      If that meglmaiiac copied your book. You would only be seen as a criminal if you aided in the implementation of your books plot.

      Of course your arsehole status is not a legal matter in this case. Or for any politician. Where I assume it’s assumed?

      Currently the plannings plot has not happened (yet). And we have no idea how involved in implementation blairs group would be. But forming the plan is not a crime in itself.

      Or at least not a war crime. In some selected cases. Such a book could be seen as inciting violence. But the lack of publicity would make a plan hard to argue that.