I’m saying that those historians, being divorced from the guilt of committing those atrocities, will call things out as they see them. Fire bombings of Dresden, Tokyo, and many other cities were done to gain military advantage, knowing full well that they were killing innocent civilians, because a) they were forcing the enemy to come out, and b) killing an entire population en masse. But only the losers of the war had to admit their part in these atrocities, although this was a crime against humanity.

Regarding Ceaser, I meant emperor in the modern sense not that he held the bundle of sticks during war time. The dude practically took over a republic from within using political games and bribery, assassinations and all kinds of stuff, but the gist of it is that, he wasn’t elected democratically by popular vote or anything, he took an army and pass the Rubicon and if you didn’t vote for him you could die in mysterious ways, and some people loved him because he handed out free grains (who cares), in the end, in ww2 innocent civilians, kids, elderly were killed by millions of tons of high explosives on purpose, and my conscience is just not okay with it.