Is this opposite day?
This is the adults in the room giving legal cover for backing out of what is clearly a suicide mission. There’s no way that America survives conflict with China at this point.
The state dept lawyers still called it “crimes against humanity”, so it’s not like they’re fully backing down. That said, if what China is doing constitutes a crime against humanity, then the US has at least three major government agencies that exist solely for the purpose of committing crimes against humanity.
Yeah, but the facts have never gotten in the way any other time the US wanted to go to war.
I’m saying that officially stating that they were “mistaken” is gonna be used as political cover for de-escalation. If the state department was still planning on going forward with some kind of conflict/intervention they’d just keep the lies coming.
It’s literally one article and goes agaisnt what the Biden admins stance is we gotta wait and see.