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Originally posted by theking
In answer to the first question...yes...if those actions are deemed to be illegal...by whomever the convening power is. Whether it by by military court or as in the case of the aftermath of the 2nd World War...by tribunal.
In the case of the 2nd World War...if the Axis powers had won the war it would have been allies put on trial and the determiners of what was illegal would have been the Axis tribunal.
So...bottom line the relevancy or irrelvancy is determined by the convening power.
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i don't agree with it in philosophic sense, but pragmatically, i completely agree with you. frightening (to me anyway), but dead on.
my brother is currently doing his Masters in History (specifically, cold war relations between the US and USSR), and as a result, we end up have conversations along this line regularly. History is much more of an Art, than a Science :)