• Narauko@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I would argue that the vast majority of people think that joining the military is about defensive war. There is a reason that military enlistment skyrockets in a country after that country has been attacked by a foreign source.

    Generally a government must convince its populace that a war not taking place on its own soil is still defensive, because offensive war isn’t palatable to the vast majority of people.