I didn’t mean to imply you held beliefs you didn’t. You’re just losing me on the point about education. They didn’t join because of deception or disinformation, they joined because they wanted what the military offered them. This is not someone you can “educate” into different behaviors, right? What would you even tell them?
You’re ignoring the role of pro-military culture, militaristic propaganda, higher ed incentives, medical coverage incentives, housing incentives, peer pressure, hero worship, etc.
You and others are the ones ignoring this. You can’t pretend that soldiers are blameless victims of a machine while acknowledging they participated voluntarily and received payment and credit for doing so. This is what makes them morally culpable.
If I work in a factory that makes bombs that kill people, I have an ethical responsibility to strike or quit. How is this same dynamic gone for people who drop them?
The Nazis declared war on the United States along with Imperial Japan, so during and after the Second World War, opposition to Nazism was an issue of patriotism. A lot of the contemporary understanding of fascism was propagandistic and untethered from reality. Many today still attribute Hitler’s ideology and policy to atheistic secularism, even though this is just untrue.
…Major Sean Glass, commander of the company known as “The Empire of the Vampires” belonging to the 52nd Battalion, gave the order from his tank to fire on Hind Rayab’s family vehicle…
They can call themselves vampires and we can’t call them bloodthirsty??? I will never understand.
Comrade Greta will forever have my respect and adoration. She is literally braver than all the troops put together, especially those who brutalized her for feeding those they meant to starve. I’ve never had a role model, but I do now.
And just as we learned (again) who the IDF are through their treatment of Greta, we know who the garden variety Zionists are by their cheerleading of that thuggery.
Yes, but it should be noted that the sanctions and murders are evaluated from the perspective of how effective they are as tools of regime change. He’s not saying our blockade of Cuba is illegal and inhumane, he’s saying it doesn’t serve the interests of American hegemony, and therefore “only makes the situation worse.”
Palestinians do not have time for solving the root of the problem. And I would call it a victory that a hostage exchange happened, that the Zionists even had to consider reaching any kind of deal with those they considered beneath their notice or dignity to treat seriously.
Extremely overlooked. Thank you for pointing this out.