Whether it's killing civilians, using cluster bombs, or launching a war of aggression based on lies, the US and Russia must be judged by the same standards.

The article does not distinguish between war crimes properly speaking and the crime of aggressive war, which is even more grave. In the conquest of Iraq, there were few war crimes or crimes against humanity. There were plenty of them later, during the long occupation of Iraq. But the decision to invade was, as we now know, a crime of aggressive war.