Ruses of war are specifically allowed by the Geneva Conventions.
Most of the Canadian Expeditionary Force came from cities, most were British born for the first part of the war.
No, the Geneva Conventions weren't written for the Canadians.
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by Impressive-Row143
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These bunch of memes became a thing when Canada was rude to Russia for invading Ukraine.
I mean.
There’s not even any evidence for any of that shit apart some unsupported war stories.
For the record, most of those posts should be removed under Rule #1 (you cannot say ‘Canadians caused the Geneva Conventions’) and most that are allowed on the sub only squeak by because some exaggeration is allowed for comedic value.
Furthermore, every war crime (by any definition or otherwise) committed by the Canadian forces in the First World War were committed by other armies during the war first, which does not excuse the actions but does add necessary context.
If posters cared about history more than the circlejerk they would post about [the crucified solider](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crucified_Soldier) and the atrocities Canadian soliders committed in response to an unsubstantiated rumour.
But the circlejerk is strong, even on a factual history based sub.
r/HistoryMemes and claims which are the exact opposite of the truth go together like peanut butter and chocolate
Fucking finally, suck and tired of people calling war being bad and horrible war crimes.
If there is one thing I have learned in my years of reddit it is that the vast, and I mean vast majority of redditors have no fucking clue what a war crime is and even less of a clue when it’s applied to history.
And I say that as someone who got downvoted to oblivion when I posted a JAG training slide for officers.
History Memes is 1% actually quality content and 99% (ahistorical) shit