...I think you missed the gist of my posts, as you seem to be arguing against points that were never made in the first place.

If my anecdote isn't resonating, then fuck it, that's not important: but if you think you're above being manipulated like that, then I got bad news for you. And it doesn't just have to be military - look at political candidates like Jill Stein: great on paper, but only ever functions to redirect sincerely moral voters into electing another R. The purpose of a system is what it does. That doesn't make Stein voters evil, it makes them taken advantage of by evil. Even though a Stein voter and a Trump voter serve the same purpose, I can still look to the former as a potential ally that sincerely wants to do good.

So back to troops. 'The military' as a whole, especially under the influence of the Trump regime, is inarguably a force of great evil, whose atrocities are constant and inexcusable. An individual soldier though, there's a lot of reasons that person might have joined up - many of which are that same flavor of evil, and frankly those individuals can go suck-start a 12 gauge. Fuck em. But that isn't all of them: many were duped, thinking they're accomplishing something good while effectively supporting something evil, much like the Stein voters... but also like the Stein voters, their good intent makes them a potential ally.

These are the ones who actually believe in their oath, the first sentence of which compels them explicitly to defend us from "enemies of the constitution, foreign and domestic". That type of language is a major source of conflict when people like Trump (domestic enemy of the US Constitution) and Musk (foreign enemy of the US Constitution) suck eachother off in the Oval Office while steamrolling US rights and liberties.

We have a group made up of a couple million people trained to use deadly force and oath-bound to protect 'we the people' from enemies like Donald Trump. Their inaction so far is an absolutely insane dereliction of their duty, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to spur them into action.

I'm not asking you to like them, I'm pointing out that their duty as established by the oath of enlistment / commissioned officers, actually aligns with our interests as humans who want things like civil liberties. An ally doesn't necessarily need to be a friend.