At what point are soldiers culpable for participating in imperialism?
Asking you in good faith. I am always pained when I see Black people dying for the West’s imperialist causes.
and what’s the fukking alternative? Sit there and live a miserable life in your small town with its ravaged economy? These were reservists from rural Georgia, it was either this or work at Winn-Dixie.
Let me guess they should’ve done something else ? They should’ve picked themselves up by the bootstraps i take it and somehow found another job in a 70 mile radius that was going to pay them this much money in such a short amount of time?
I consider myself left leaning but one thing you progressives and faux revolutionaries never seem to account for is that people have to
fukking survive in this capitalist hellscape. Only a handful of complete psychos are signing up with the intent of killing people and extending the arm of oppression and supremacy. Most everyone else understands that being in the military isn’t inherently heroic act .
You’d be shocked at the amount of people in the military who were good at their job and show up every day, but will be the first ones to tell you that it’s all bullshyt and the military industrial complex is how America controls trade and the flow of money around the world. You’d be surprised at the amount of people who were kicking in doors in Iraq, but were the first ones to say that Iraqis have a right to defend themselves and their homeland from invaders.
surviving in a hyper capitalist globalist world is hard enough, it’s counterproductive and downright hypocritical to judge people through such a harsh lens. The crime didn’t start with them joining the military and if they didn’t join, somebody else would.