Considering that we have folk ALL over social media already using “they are just following orders” to excuse what the US military is already doing to our own fucking people…

But I also suggest reading up a lot more on what the Nuremburg Trials actually were (and weren’t). It is good that we kind of universally acknowledged “I was just following orders” is not an excuse for murder, rape, and genocide (… for about as long as we acknowledged nazis were the universal evil). But the reality is that it was a complete and utter shitshow with very few actual convictions. In large part because… war is a LOT more “air bud rules” than people realize. And most of the ceremonial high profile targets… actually had good lawyers.

Over dramatized youtube essay, but Jacob Geller has a really good video where he goes into this.