People are gambling with their lives when they sign up. I feel sorry for the poor who have little other choice, but that’s about it
Honestly, I don’t really care at this point. They signed a contract for a job, just like everyone else. But they get free (not great) healthcare for life, and better mortgage rates than everyone else. In some states veterans get tax breaks. Oh and they get free college afterwards. They can also save up a decent chunk of change since basic expenses are paid when on duty/deployed.
Fucking garbage men do more to benefit my day to day life than any US soldier, and they get fraction of that. We haven’t had a draft since Vietnam. I don’t owe you shit for choosing a job with a lot of rewards and a low retirement age that has a high mortality rate.
Garbage men don’t get parades. They also don’t make 2-5 years of their life the basis of their entire identity, and tell everyone they encounter about it.
Yeah came here to say this. No one in my circles talks about the death of our troops it’s a tragedy. Just another statistic we throw around when talking about how incompetent our government is.
It’s pretty easy when you understand how many young men and women join the armed forces because they basically don’t have any other options. They join it to try to escape crippling poverty, because they have so few other options. Which is by design.
That these young people are being thrown into a meat grinder to serve the vested interest of an elite few. The vested interest of the Epstein class. They’re dying for lies of a pedophilic elite. Their lives are being thrown away for no good reason. How is that anything but tragic?
“I went to fight for the Epstein class because they gave me money” is not exactly the defense you think it is, IMO.
It’s not soldiers who start wars. There is some cognitive dissonance, but one can be angry at corrupt politicians sending troops to unnecessary wars, and respect those same troops as heroes risking their lives for the country.
Honest question: do people really think that attacking a third world country, thousands of kilometres away from your home, that hasn’t attacked you, is “risking your life for the country”?
We’re not talking about defending yourself from an invading attack, but going far away to invade a foreign country
GI Joe did not join the military to attack a third world country. Members of the armed forces, once signed up, have to go wherever they are deployed. So yes, many service members are brave folks who are willing to risk their lives to defend their country. But likely the majority are completely average people who enlisted because they didn’t see many other career opportunities available to them. Either way, they agreed to follow orders.
And then they are sent to stupid wars where they are traumatized (and they traumatize civilians of the hostile country) for no good reason. That doesn’t mean they are inherently evil or aggressive people, or even that they want to be at war.
I’m legitimately curious if you are asking this because you think only Americans kill other country’s civilians during conflict or if that’s the only country whose murder of innocent civilians bothers you.
BTW, it’s not only the murder of civilians that makes the US military so evil. It’s also the sheer scope of brutality, in terms of size and time that the US has perpetrated with not only direct military action, but also proxy military actions, and economic and civil violence that is facilitated by the threat of military action.
Other people being shits has no bearing on how big a shit you are.
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Why would I direct my anger at the every day people who decided to sacrifice to serve our country and not the people that sent them to fight in an unjust and unnecessary conflict?
Can I fault a teenager for believing their country is worth fighting for? No
How do you mean “country is worth fighting for”?
Other than 9/11, when was the last time we worried about being attacked?
