• Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 hours ago

    I’m sure it’s not the way the manifest is meant but as I see it: You can either have no army, which would be nice but unfortunately that’s not how this world functions. Or you have a army. This army currently is made of people who either want to fight or they don’t see another way to pay their bills.So they find it good to follow orders or don’t have a choice. I find neither of them trustworthy to handle a weapon.

    Now image that this army is mostly built on people between 20 and 30 years old, everyone does it’s service for about a year (except higher ranks where you need more experience, let’s not go to much into details). The major part of the soldiers are people with normal lives waiting for them after finishing their duty. Do you think those people would engage in a meaningless war? Or turn against their own if someone like Trump wants them to? They would fight to defend their owns but the majority wouldn’t follow unethical orders.

    • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      7 hours ago

      I’m sure it’s not the way the manifest is meant but as I see it: You can either have no army, which would be nice but unfortunately that’s not how this world functions.

      Costa Rica says hello.

      The major part of the soldiers are people with normal lives waiting for them after finishing their duty. Do you think those people would engage in a meaningless war? Or turn against their own if someone like Trump wants them to?

      Are we memory holing that the National Guard was deployed against multiple US cities within the past year?