Comment by ThunderSizzle

I'm being blunt (not edgy).

A crime is a crime because a judge says its a crime and setences the criminal, barring natural law.

In the case of war crimes, the judge is the victor, and victor tends to decide their efforts were justified and necessary, while their enemies were unjustified and unnecessary.

If Russia wins, NATO does nothing, who's running the war crime trials? You can't hold those trials without getting an unconditional surrender, and you aren't getting that without a full out war, and you won't see that not escalate into nuclear war.

You want to hold Russia accountable? Then that means NATO needs to get involved and win. Otherwise, it's just words that Putin won't care about, because he won and the world moves on.