Just responding to the headline prompt (which might be rhetorical) I almost feel like it might also be hard to “prove.”
It’s undeniably horrible and obviously deliberate, but when international conflict between powers is on the line, maybe it’s more of a “soft weapon” to which the offender can point and go “Who’s to say we directly caused their lack of food? Maybe we’re just blocking trade that happens to be food because we don’t get along lately? Sounds like their problem!”
Kinda like how how authoritarian capitalists love to exploit masses of people, then shove burdens like poverty, hunger, and a destroyed environment onto the back of the individual.
But this is after a ridiculously heinous chain of deliberate war crimes in a row observed the world over, and no prosecution is happening.
Just responding to the headline prompt (which might be rhetorical) I almost feel like it might also be hard to “prove.”
It’s undeniably horrible and obviously deliberate, but when international conflict between powers is on the line, maybe it’s more of a “soft weapon” to which the offender can point and go “Who’s to say we directly caused their lack of food? Maybe we’re just blocking trade that happens to be food because we don’t get along lately? Sounds like their problem!”
Kinda like how how authoritarian capitalists love to exploit masses of people, then shove burdens like poverty, hunger, and a destroyed environment onto the back of the individual.
But this is after a ridiculously heinous chain of deliberate war crimes in a row observed the world over, and no prosecution is happening.