Allied atrocities and war crimes

...the footage from both drones shows that children were nearby at the time of the strike. One view from directly above is less clear — black-and-white footage showing heat sources — but there still seem to unmistakably be small bodies moving around near the car just before the strike. A second drone nearby shows higher resolution footage, where it's much more clear that children were in the alleyway by the house just prior to the strike.

That the strike happened anyway is apparently part and parcel for how the military has used drones in the War on Terror. It's why whistleblowers have been warning us all along that the U.S. has been misleading us by claiming these strikes are precise, and capable of taking out terrorists without collateral damage.

The footage certainly reinforces the analysis The New York Times published in December that determined that not only has the military dramatically under counted the number of civilians killed by drone strikes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Syria, and other countries, it also seems to have very little interest in analyzing what causes strikes to go bad and has done a poor job of analyzing its failures. Furthermore, it was operational policy for the military to call for drone strikes even when children were present if officials could argue that there was an important "military advantage" gained by the strike.

reason.com/2022/01/19/released-video-footage-shows-disastrous-u-s-drone-strike-that-killed-kabul-family/

Antony Beevor has written that the Soviet soldiers “raped every German female from eight to 80.”
Many Western historians are scared to to write about these issues because the Allied Forces, of course, have been viewed as liberators. But the fact is that the Allied Forces viewed themselves as “avengers.” “One of the French officers is supposed to have said, ‘We are the avengers, the SS of the French Army.’”[1]

The French units “were made up of French soldiers from the 5th Armoured Division, Foreign Legionaries, and Moroccan and Algerian troops from the 2nd Moroccan and the 3rd Algerian Infantry Divisions. From the first the French made it clear that the people were going to be properly punished.

“There would be three days of plunder. A sergeant said that the troops would be released from discipline, and a quartermaster added, ‘In the next few nights no woman will go untouched’…

“The surviving houses were systematically destroyed with benzene: 649 were burned down in this way. It was now open season for any women aged between sixteen and eighty. It is generally said that the Moroccans behaved the worst.”[2]

The French soldiers moved to Stuttgart, where “3,000 women and eight men were raped”. In another place called Vaihingen, “A further 500 women were raped…”[4]

Yet revenge was one of their plans, and they were... On 7 May the Red Army deliberately started fires in the ruins. What was left of the city was looted.

“On 10 May the library of the university or Leopoldina for which Brahms had written his famous Academic Festival Overture went up in flames; on the 15th it was the turn of the city museum. On the same day the twin towers of one of the city’s great Backsteingotik churches—St. Mary Magdalene—were blown up.”[5]

THE THIEVING ALLIES 
Other atrocities were committed as well. After the war, the Americans joined the Russians in looting German towns and villages. The Soviet forces, of course, started “all sorts of theft.”

During the first two days of August, it is estimated that they stole “1,280,000 tons of materiel and 3,6000,000 tons of equipment.”[12] U.S. soldiers were accused of stealing paintings, and two U.S. officers “of the Women’s Army Corps were tried for stealing $1,500,000 worth of jewelry.”[13]

www.veteranstoday.com/2022/10/04/sexual-and-predatory-magnitude-of-allied-forces-after-wwii/