I consider myself very far left, but hearing all the time that fire bombing cities to target civilians was justified (which I read on Lemmy just a few days ago) makes me sick. Targeting civilians is always a war crime. I don't even care if people went on trial for that. I just want it to be taught and talked about at what it was. Of course the fucking fascists needed to be stopped, just like the Japanese did. They were committing atrocious crimes, far worse than what the Allies did. And so it was decided to commit some more war crimes and over all it worked. But that doesn't fucking change the fact that fire bombing cities like Dresden or Hamburg or Tokyo or dropping the nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't also fucking war crimes. You can't win a war like this and claim everything you did was fine and dandy and completely justified. That you can't find that annoying without being called a neonazi is seriously fucked up.