All I see are Baal and 99% Baal

clearly he doesn’t actually give a shit about the mindless killing of brown people

Came here to say this; some ‘veterans’ pay lip service to the number of dead Iraqis, but this guy in an entire essay had zero to say on this. He doesn’t care and he knows Trump doesn’t either.

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It also makes bravery expensive (not that cowardice isn’t expensive in the long run)

even if though the foreign state has never contemplated this potential advantage

So any time your imagination runs away with you, you need to treat others as your enemies?

I don’t want to go on a rant, but every time we say we’ve changed since the 60’/70’s/80’s/etc I ask okay, did the perpetrators of crimes back then be made to pay for their crimes? How can we say we’ve changed if we allow people who committed those crimes to walk scot free? This extends even to crimes committed against foreign nations; if we don’t prosecute the guilty, how can we say we changed? It’s just making excuses and protecting the guilty.

Now it’s all coming home to roost.

If you want to close the chapter on this crime or that, you must prosecute the guilty, or else you create the conditions like today where people shrug their shoulders and go on with their lives. The Iraq war was a crime, was anyone in government taken to court for it? The boarding schools for indigenous people was a crime, did anyone get taken to court for it? The experimentations on people was a crime, did anyone get taken to court for it? Bush Senior’s response to shooting down an Iranian passenger jet and murdering people was “I’m not an apologize for America kind of guy”, and LIBS were defending him when he died. On and on.

We don’t have a culture of holding politicians to account, and now when it’s a politician we all hate, we feel it. We spent decades saying “that was in the past” and now we’re seeing what that actually means.

he has remorse, as well as disgust for US foreign policy and his role in it.

You mean he claims he does.

He’s had three tours in Iraq and actually went back willingly with Blackrock and said he enjoyed small wars, that he enjoyed infantry combat; when he was firing mortar into a heavily urban area and told to stop, he switched to something that couldn’t be detected so he wouldn’t be stopped; he would’ve continued using the mortars but didn’t because they would’ve been detected the military. Does he actually have remorse for what he’s done? We can disagree on that, but obviously you and I agree that he should not be allowed within a mile of political office with all this, right?

Literal Nazis were appointed in leadership roles in NATO; they claimed they were forced to serve, and perhaps they were telling the truth, but obviously we can agree that people with such backgrounds shouldn’t be allowed near any kind of political office, right?

Would you trust a former member of ISIS for example when he says he’s got remorse for what he’s done as well as disgust for ISIS foreign (and domestic) policy? Perhaps he’s telling the truth, but would you trust them in a political position? Remember, Platner has literally admitted to committing war crimes; he is literally no different than a member of ISIS.

Cool so speeding while brown is punishable by death

I think we can both imagine exactly the justification chuds will use, even considering the last ticket the guy got was in 2013

There’s no “bad apples” excuse here, no-one can deflect this onto the soldiers.

I mean if you tell the scum of humanity they’re no longer on a leash and they go on to do as they wish, they’re still culpable. The ‘human’ version of rabid rats have only had their leash removed, they’re still only doing as they please.

I think even many of the grunts would find that condescending and dehumanizing.

Goblins and literal ratmen: That is offensive! We have so much more to contribute! There’s quite a few who are partial to torture and at least five times that who are quite into the old SV!

I’m glad the disgruntled scum of humanity may be of some use going forward though.

The Germans are perhaps still motivated by guilt over the Holocaust

Honestly I’m not entirely convinced the Germans ARE motivated by guilt; it seems to me more that they’re not happy with the image they created among their (perceived) peers and are now trying to create a new image to be seen by. They want TO BE SEEN as having overcome their past and become better for it, but the idea that they’ve fundamentally changed is a joke. They committed atrocities in Namibia for example but have never paid reparations to the people there, and of course why should they? Other European countries rag on Germany for the holocaust, none of them give a damn about the atrocities committed against the Herero people.

They bend over backwards for Israel because they don’t want to be mocked as Nazis; they want to continue viewing themselves in the same lofty position they see other Western European countries in.

Honestly this

I recall something (RFK?) said that tiktok took the narrative on Gaza out of their hands. They can’t tell people what to think if people have access to events (through video and images) that previously the news used to either hide or share tidbits about but heavily color by narrative.

Remember when libs kept promising us the military would never use violence against the American people? Remember how they said if a tyrant became president the military would refuse orders to harm fellow Americans?

God it would be funny if there wasn’t a literal genocide that needed to be ended first.