Putin's Ukraine adventure has been an abject failure.

Because he knows Americans will roll over and accept “no” without a fight

He’s a draft dodger himself. They’re only pawns in his scheme to enrich himself and the capital class. It’s been the same with every president since WWII.

This is what happens when you prop your economy up on war and petroleum. You have to fight constant wars to maintain it. You have to keep heating up the planet until it’s unliveable.

The Great Depression proved that capitalism is a bubble that can’t sustain itself without constant exploitation of fossil fuels and the military-industrial complex. The second hit took place with the oil shortages and stagflation of the 1970s.

I'd rather be poor than murder people 🤷‍♂️

Becoming a disposable weapon of the state is still a choice, they still have blood on their hands, whether or not the game is rigged to coerce desperate people into becoming murderers or cannon fodder

the “have little choice” is just being able to shift guilt. we 100% know this is a genocidal fascist regime, and i have more support for someone who chooses to be gifted “life’s plan” of hardship over joining this mil.

fyi: this is the plan. the capitalists who profit from war know they can only profit if there is a cohort of poor, hungry, stupid kids they can use for the human parts.

The Israeli-US Alliance essentially murdered Iranian schoolgirls.

Its not worth it.

Honestly, if it’s this bad, why is this put up with?

For a country that has spent so much time telling others how free it is, its citizens take a lot of shit

If it’s that bad, no point waiting around any longer, shut the thing down.

If the only path out of poverty is killing poor people abroad then I'd rather stay poor.

I don't understand the backlash you're getting. It's not very surprising that a poor 18 year old sees the military as a way out of their hardship. I'm not saying it is, there's a very good chance it is not. But that a struggling teenager can see it that way, and getting drawn in by recruiters isn't odd.

100% agree with your edit. You'll see people used as drug mules, not because they're hardened criminals, but because they're desperate enough to do something they know is wrong.

I think a lot of the people taking a hard stance against you here haven't seen hardship up close and dont realise how tempting it would be to do something to get out of it

Sorry i have to kill brown people. Some rape is expected, but i really didn't have a choice.

Id rather see them in poverty than more dead girls abroad. We should start spitting on their faces again.

You may not believe it, but dead nieces sisters and daughters also foments desperation and inspires violence. The sniper who develops ptsd because he killed three generations of men in because he had to do that or be a wage slave is a product of what republicans want. If that guy had a UBI and more socialism in general, guess what? He isn't ending three generations of men because he has literally no reason to do it now.

Sorry I had to serve in the SS cuz it was the only path I had out of poverty, for a chance at a decent education too, I 100% hate those Nazis please don't put us on trial 🥺

I grew up in an area where that was absolutely the case. A whole lot of people on things like food stamps and so on.

I don't have exact numbers, but I'd say at least one in four males (and not a few females) went into some branch of the military. They are promised a lot and most of it is not delivered.

My parents were pacifists and extremely suspicious of the industrial military complex, and did everything possible to keep the recruiters at bay, while they scrimped and saved and got loans for my siblings and I to get a secondary education or vocational training. They were not rich, but given they were both gainfully employed and very frugal, we were in a more stable home than most in my area.

Many kids did not even graduate, there was a fair bit of teen pregnancy, too. I have the same suspicion of the military my parents had, but I also understand that many of my school mates did not have a lot of options.

The military is never anyone's only choice out of poverty. The military is a career you choose. Just because you were in poverty when you made that choice does not mean you didn't have other choices.

Bro. If your only way out of poverty is to murder children, then stay poor.

Also, Americans don't know what poverty means. You're murdering people who are actually poor.

40% of those in the military vote Democrat, do you have compassion for them?

Please recall that most voters voted for Trump, so anyone in any other nation could use your logic to not have compassion for you, the minority.

(if military are idiots because majority voted R, then you are an idiot because US majority voted R).

Military recruits predominantly lower income, under educated people and then proceeds to fall for Republican propaganda - it's like you sectioned off a control group and said "damn, why are they so control?"

Would? Doesn't the "Board of Peace" exist?

Stop testing for Covid and BAM, active cases drop significantly. Science.

But we can build ballrooms and arches and multiple attempts at a blue pool. Odd.

Lol please. This president has proven he can do basically whatever he wants with allocated funds and neither Congress or scotus will stop him.

Because Republicans have both majorities and the presidency...

Our system sucks, but it used to be functional, and can be again.

Obviously one of the first things to do once it's functional, is improve the system and put in protections to stop this from happening again.

Like, everyone complains about the electoral college, but we could just get rid of it and make the presidency a straight popular vote. But the real problem, is a president was never meant to have this much power in the first place. They're supposed to be an essentially powerless ambassador.

No real power, just the person we said can speak on our behalf in situations where there's just a single seat at a table for America

Iraq was a pretty clear military victory.