Crimes of the COG | Gears of War Breakdown 

The COG never change.

geneva convention more like geneva suggestion

Regarding the New COG using the harmmer, minister Jin and Ana were both against using the hammer. If I remember correctly, Ana even brought the system down after the lambit when she she elected as Minister. It was kait, Marcus, and company that brought the hammer back up even when they were told not to. But I kinda see Kait and company's logic for bringing back the hammer as well, nothing the New COG was working against the swarm. If anything in my opinion the New COG is worse than the old one, the old COG at LEAST did something to defend against Locust, even if their actions were monstrous. The New COG and minster jin just sat around and did nothing as both settlements and oustider camps were killed by the swarm. They literally thought hiding behind their settlement's walls would actually do something It also doesn't help the Jin wanted to hook Kait back into the swarm hive mind and arrest them all for not complying. Honestly Jin is the worst leader in the franchise strategy wise, sure Prescott was a bastard for the things he did as chairman and for leaving the COG after the sinking of Jacinto. But at least the man actually did something, staging an assault on the locust, trying to find a way to end the war. Compared to Jin, she didn't literally nothing to help fight the swarm.

These COG/UIR war crimes make the Imperium of Man green with envy. Besides, the Human governments in Halo are way less antagonistic to their own people, yet ONI has some skeletons in their closet. But that's nothing compared to the Covenant's immense war crimes and near omnicide of the Galaxy.

Well you know what they say, it ain't a war crime if you win.

In my own head cannon… just based off what’s known of the birthing farms, as far as what happened to Sofia I feel it’s much darker than a simple assassination. Based off of how COG soldiers conducted themselves in said birthing farms I feel it’s safe to assume that these were COG defectors turned Stranded that “kidnapped” (I’m sure you know what I’m alluding to) Sofia in this post apocalyptic scenario and with how Paduk talks about it is definitely much worse than a simple killing.

I mean, I get its morally wrong. But survival of the entire race supersedes morals that hinder survival in certain cases. But those hammer strikes really didn't help the COG in the war.

I can add one to your list: The Siege of Anvil Gate. In which Hoffman held Anvil Gate but it couldn't last, so he officially waved the white flag. The UIR sent in some lieutenant who offered water, and food to the starved soldiers and promised relatively good conditions as POW. Then Hoffman gave the order to pretty much set the streets on fire and kill the UIR soldiers. I'd also like to add to Aspho fields (idk how exactly it is portrayed in the 10 mins in the game) but in the book they don't kill the scientists, the goal is to kidnap them and the data, so they could work for the cog or at least can't work for the UIR. They weren't killed by the cog. But the UIR fired on the boats where those civvies were on (Dom got his embry for jumping from his boat to the other which was sinking, saving as many people as possible)

Only detail I noticed was off is the date for the planet-wide hammer strikes. They occurred nearly a year after E-Day since the Coalition was about a month away from collapse. The hammer strikes outright halted the Locust advance for years, since it wasn’t until 8A.E. that the Locust reorganized enough to resume their drive on Ephyra. Other than that, good video. Gears of war does a terrific job at highlighting the destructive nature of war and how low nations will have to stoop to win these increasingly devastating conflicts.

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see locust is bad yes but they had no choice bc of the lambent

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