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[–] 86 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There’s a lot of people who seem to have a knee-jerk reaction to this “that’s a war crime!!1!”, but it really is not. Incendiary weapons (like thermite, white phosphorus and napalm) are not illegal to use against legitimate military targets, including enemy combatants. It’s only a war crime when it’s used indiscriminately against civilians or in civilian areas.

Lot of misinformation out there on this it seems.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I looked it up and you're 100% right. Incendiary weapons are allowed as long as it doesn't hit civilians or start a forest fire

    https://www.weaponslaw.org/weapons/incendiary-weapons

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Incendiary_Weapons

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Lot of misinformation out there on this it seems.

    I wonder why? 🤔

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Honestly war crimes just have a lot of misinformation generally. Even in the military. There were people who thought we couldn't shoot someone with a .50 cal machine gun. While this spawns funny jokes like aiming for their uniform buttons, it just isn't true.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Honestly, I think it’s more that people take this info from movies and just run with it than malicious (Russian) misinformation bots (although they don’t mind giving this an extra push I imagine).

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