The American economy has been jury-rigged for decades to pipeline disadvantaged youth into the military, and said youth are very close to thve bottom of the list of people responsible for that dynamic.

Completely and utterly aware of that dynamic, but what parts of "no excuse" and "baby-killing machine" are so difficult for people to understand? We all know that there are some things you "just don't do" because they are monstrous to do! Joining the military needs to be one of them!

said youth are very close to the bottom of the list of people responsible for that dynamic.

Right but that doesn't make them not responsible at all for their individual choices, individual actions, or for their part in the baby-killing machine. Obviously the capitalists are the ones most responsible by several orders of magnitude, but that does not mean that working people or poorer people who put their bodies on the line to work for the capitalists' baby-killing machine are completely innocent. Like you do not lose your moral agency once you fall below the poverty line.

Like I'm asking for the absolute bare minimum of resisting temptation and liberals in this thread are like "no, soldiers are like innocent little baby lambs who have been shepherded into the military and have no moral agency" and like, fuck right off to hell with that take. Troops are people with the same ability to make moral decisions as any other people, and ostensibly they're tough people, so they should be able to process this extremely simple if distressing reality that their """service""" was evil and that they have to live with the consequences of their own mistake.