The widow of an Alabama airman has revealed she and her children are not eligible for some benefits because the Iran war has not officially been declared a war
chair force guys enlist for the money and being able to pat themselves on the back for “service”, which they think means getting paid to workout, flex, and maybe help a drone drop a bomb on a school somewhere far away.
it’s telling that there’s this phenomenon of “this isn’t what i signed up for” when there’s like moderate pushback from a near peer making “service” noticeably less chill.
i don’t doubt this isn’t what they expected, because they’re the sort of bozo that would volunteer for the imperial war machine not noticing its been in decline for almost a decade.
Enlisted Air Force guys enlist for the money and being able to do this shit from the back lines. Air Force officers are the ones who get sent to the front to, well, mostly blow up schools and daycares and report them as “chemical weapons depots” during ops debrief.
the critique is correct but honestly it is good that imperial troops and their families are thinking this way. It means that they are all susceptible to anti-war messaging- which is what an anti-imperialist wants to see from the core, at least to start. That kind of language serves to further corrode morale and lends other soldiers to question the motives of leaders and maybe even the system itself
That is very fair. It’s hard to see past the schadenfreude at times, but you’re right, it’s a net positive for that demographic to begin seeing and feeling the morale dwindle.
There isn’t a draft in this country yet, he very clearly made his choice.
how could he have known joining the military means having to participate in wars? he was tricked!
chair force guys enlist for the money and being able to pat themselves on the back for “service”, which they think means getting paid to workout, flex, and maybe help a drone drop a bomb on a school somewhere far away.
it’s telling that there’s this phenomenon of “this isn’t what i signed up for” when there’s like moderate pushback from a near peer making “service” noticeably less chill.
i don’t doubt this isn’t what they expected, because they’re the sort of bozo that would volunteer for the imperial war machine not noticing its been in decline for almost a decade.
Enlisted Air Force guys enlist for the money and being able to do this shit from the back lines. Air Force officers are the ones who get sent to the front to, well, mostly blow up schools and daycares and report them as “chemical weapons depots” during ops debrief.
the critique is correct but honestly it is good that imperial troops and their families are thinking this way. It means that they are all susceptible to anti-war messaging- which is what an anti-imperialist wants to see from the core, at least to start. That kind of language serves to further corrode morale and lends other soldiers to question the motives of leaders and maybe even the system itself
That is very fair. It’s hard to see past the schadenfreude at times, but you’re right, it’s a net positive for that demographic to begin seeing and feeling the morale dwindle.