>Operationally speaking there’s no such thing as war crimes. The victor writes the rules and the loser, well vae victis.

Yawn.

Of course the victor writes the rules, but the International Criminal Court has the support of most of the UN. If you believe democratic society is fundamentally a good thing then it follows that the Pax Americana has been, in aggregate, a tremendous success in normalizing and codifying international law.

Is the current state of affairs imperfect? Of course.

"Winners write history" is such a boring, undergraduate take on geopolitics.