please_dont [he/him]

Being a willing commander ,and too a lesser extend grunt ,on a genocidal and enslavement against an entire race of people war of aggression 2000 miles from home while civilian holocaust of tens of millions of people is happening around you perpetrated by 95% of your brothers in arms makes you indeed permanently stained and unclean. You dont have to rape women or execute every civilian you see.

There where shades on a slider but even in the outmost edges of it there certainly werent “clean” whermacht soldiers and commanders “with moral backbones”. Shades still started with almost black into pitch ,zero photon reflecting, black

Like Alaskaball pointed out extreme background checks on all US soldiers, draft or not, seeing the actively participated in war crimes and crimes against humanity in any and all of the past and present US wars and punishment accordingly should be the way. For the rest radicalization/re-education till they can recognize the error of their involvement and then actively being comrades is a good line to draw

This is better executed the closer to us the conflict is. For lets say Vietnam we cant do any such thing at this point but when talking active boots on the ground we do know that a a big chunk, likely a majority was involved in crimes against humanity and war crimes one way or another. And we do know that the vast vast vast majority doesnt regret em or has reconsidered and is proud , hell a big majority % of em voted for Trump and supported every subsequent war. So in this sense treating Vietnam vets as you would have treated nazi soldiers will have you be correct more than often than not

Like, yeah they’re a lesser threat to the world at large than the US, but it’s hard to blame Rojava for choosing to accept the military protection of the US rather than fully throwing themselves on the mercy of Ba’athist Syria

They are a lesser threat on Syria and even the Kurds specificaly than Assad. You can go as local as you want in the middle east and the US still is the greater Evil. More people died and suffered, die and suffer due to US presence and involvement in Syria than they would have other wise than the entire population of Rojava X5 , for sure more than shitty ass Assad regime did. They didnt just accept military protection , they gave the US free pass to do what they please from maybe the most strategic important erea of Syria and operate and occupy as they like.And they did act as they like from within rojava and that did extend their presence and ability to project power and destabilize the region further. They could never say no to the US so it was never a case of them "gettinga autonomy " from dealing with the US. Their choice was at the expense of tens of millions of Syrians and middle eastern people and in the end of the day at the expense of themselves. A Syria without US presence and involvement and a Kurdish people not in the whim of the US military wouldnt result in Turkey nearly genociding them within Syria’s boarders. Its something that would never be allowed to happen if not in a Syria thrown into shambles by western intervention, fractured and weakened and if not the US didnt take what it want from the Kurds and leave them to die. It was the Syrian state that did the obvious thing and pushed jumped in without in the end of the day even destroying Kurdish autonomy or Anexing them. You can go into “well these sneaky!! they would genocide the Kurds as well if they had the chance” but its obvious at this point (and rojava accepted it) and it was obvious at all previous points in the last 10 years that a reduced autonomy allience with Assad would be both the best for the entire erea and people and in the long run would be for the Kurds in general.

During the Cuban revolution and shortly afterwards they killed or exiled like 98% of people that had positions of the Batista state or supported it or benifited from it and didnt defect, from the local to the highest level. I dont know how is that a counter example or how you reply to “we should purge reactionaries that would take action to harm us during and after the revolution” with “well thats how we got pol pot”. Well yeah among a dozen other reasons i guess. But thats also how we got any project that survived more than a couple of years and was able to become stable anough and overcome the opposing forces domesticaly and worldwide to a big enough degree that it could afford the humanist apporach and turned away from any mass repression, like with Cuba

“Xi does think he’s moving to a new kind of system that doesn’t exist anywhere in the world,” said Barry Naughton, a China economy expert at the University of California, San Diego. “I call it a government-steered economy.”

Xi, Deng etc:

-“We are communists. Here are our openly stated long term socialist goals and the marxist reasoning and analysis for the choices and policies that have been enacted in the last 40 years. Here are tens of thousands of pages repeating in the most simple terms that Capital isnt in charge of China and that reform and oppening up is and was a means and not a trend towrads complete capitalist restoration. Its the only and most successfull means (for the conditions of China) towards building what we judged as necessary material, geopolitical and technological base and requirements to move beyond it and towards a socialist and secure from outside forces future. It isnt nearly done yet but we have progressed enough that we can start pulling back on some stuff and reign on capital power and corruption”

“Western expert on Chinese economy” when Xi takes actions completely in line with those plans that rhetoric , ideology and analysis:

-"OMG this is a totally new system dictator Xi’s is building towards . Who could have seen it coming really?. I CALL IT -random words sticked together instead of basic material and marxist analysis-