Comment by saagarjha

That’s…not how war crimes work. If you conduct an attack that indiscriminately kills civilians, or torture prisoners of war, or deploy chemical weapons, those are all war crimes even if you say you’ll stop the moment you win. By your definition nothing would ever be a war crime because when one side unconditionally surrenders the war is over. Doing these things outside of an active conflict is state-sponsored terrorism or genocide instead.