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Hiroshima marks a-bomb anniversary, calls nuclear deterrence "folly"

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/hiroshima-marks-a-bomb-anniversary-calls-nuclear-deterrence-folly-2023-08-06/

Japan on Sunday marked the 78th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing on Hiroshima, where its mayor urged the abolition of nuclear weapons and called the Group of Seven leaders' notion of nuclear deterrence a "folly".

TOKYO, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Japan on Sunday marked the 78th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing on Hiroshima, where its mayor urged the abolition of nuclear weapons and called the Group of Seven leaders' notion of nuclear deterrence a "folly".

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bruzzard

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Agreed. We dont hear enough for the US to confess to its war crimes, many of which are still going on today.

ProcurementCat

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bruzzard

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The US can't even fess up and and rectify the sysyemic violence happening domestically to its first nation people, blacks and people of colour. How about they begin there and then atone for what they've done to the rest of the world. Ukraine is a US proxy war with Russia. And war keeps the US rich and powerful. Couple that with a crumbling education system, social support and religion and you have a decent supply of young men and woment to enlist. Nobody outside the US would buy the nonsense you just spewed. Go pick your cherries elsewhere.

CanadaPlus

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This is kind of how I think about it. Westerners are as full of shit as anybody but there's an interest in being the good guys, which is unique at the block-level in this century.

OurToothbrush

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The US still hasn't acknowledged almost all of its warcrimes in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, and regularly deploys tear gas against its own citizens.

SheeEttin

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Use of tear gas in domestic riot control is not a violation of the chemical weapons convention.

https://www.opcw.org/chemical-weapons-convention/articles/article-ii-definitions-and-criteria

“Purposes Not Prohibited Under this Convention” means:

(d) Law enforcement including domestic riot control purposes.

Is it bad when used unnecessarily, especially not with a riot? Yes. But to imply that the US is commiting a war crime by using it is misleading.

zephyreks

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That's not what the OP said, though. They mentioned war crimes AND tear gas.

OurToothbrush

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The US would be doing a war crime if they were enemy soldiers. The US doing it on civilians is even worse, despite not being a warcrime.

Hiroshima marks a-bomb anniversary, calls nuclear deterrence "folly"

Hiroshima marks a-bomb anniversary, calls nuclear deterrence "folly"

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