and told his men to shoot the Americans if they tried to continue murdering the villagers.

I can’t remember where I read it… but apparently a group of British soldiers did the same thing during the Korean War when they witnessed US personnel guarding Korean concentration camp inmates that were about to be “liquidated” by ROK troops.

I need to find that again.

How the fuck is that possible?

Colonialist warfare is just a laundry list of war crimes perpetrated against an “other” - and you can’t commit war crimes without war criminals.