Obeying illegal orders is obviously illegal.
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And a genocidal maniac that the remaining free world has issued an arrest warrant for
Didn't have a problem starting it for him though. Whatsamatter, senator's investments aren't going as planned?
so incredibly tone deaf to claim sympathy for the soldiers and leaders of an aggressor, who made the conscious decision to follow those orders
so fucking tone deaf. shame on you, OP. it's disgusting. people have agency. those following orders are equally culpable
That’s a quote of what the congressman said, not OP’s own words. I’ll admit they didn’t make it super clear with quotation marks, but OP is just sharing an article
Personally, I think this is another great example of dems “doing everything they can” by… using stern words of disapproval with instead of actually fucking doing their jobs
Intellectually/spiritually/financially impoverished slaves conditioned to be as abusive as the system that reared them and still provides them their “necessities”. I like to think of imperialists as semi-conscious children with serious behavioral disorders+no early-life training for how to interact in non-hostile ways with other beings, who have been convinced by lead-poisoned racist authority figures that growing up to become a cog in an infinite plundering machine is honorable life path. All it takes is some reframing… maybe some of them end up waking themselves up to the whole mess in time to, at the very least, remove themselves from the process and re-evaluate their behaviors/priorities, begin growing their desire for truth-seeking, appreciation of nature, personal growth, or just living in the real world outside of 24/7/365 imperial conquest mode
This is like saying "Germany did terrible things in WWII -- they made grave tactical errors". This article is more of an indictment of Chris Murphy than anything else.
When does Trump command the stoners to attack?
No way, this is the best war of all time. The most incompetent war campaign waged.Ever. Operation Epstein Distract has to be making some type of epic impact. We’ll all just look back on this and groan one day.
A war that shouldn’t be happening, waged by a man who should be in jail, run by an administration of unqualified officials, at the expense of a people already priced out of their own nation.
at the expense of a people being bombed.
Original comment is well stated if a bit one sided.
I have great sympathy for our soldiers and our military leaders. They are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind. And so, it’s no surprise that this war is going horribly.
I don't. They should have turned against the current administration and the president long time ago. At the very least when this war was going to start. They didn't and still follow orders that weren't legal at the beginning, not questioning what they are doing.
They had record recruiting numbers in 2025. The soldiers want this.
Well those don't have my sympathy for sure
Any soldier you see in any combat footage today has been deployed as far back as January, 2026
Imagine making a post about this war and expressing sympathy for the soldiers bombing schools and not even mentioning the civilians being killed with a single word.
If someone was in the military, saw what was happening around July last year, and got out how ever they could- should they hate themselves for throwing away their career?
Asking for a friend.
Absolutely not. Pro gamer move.
Legit. Thanks.
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Even before his mental decline/2025 stroke, Trump has no concern for the finer details of any military operation. He is profoundly uncurious, which makes him easy to puppet.
This war is the brainchild of fundamentalist psychopaths in Israel and the Heritage Foundation. Chaos is the goal, and the loss in life and treasure is of no concern to them because it's not their lives or treasure.
I don't like that I have heard a non zero number of people on the Christian extreme that are cheering this on because they think that is the start of Armageddon and Jesus is coming.
Playing out that scenario for a minute. They'll be really fucking shocked when the Jesus that shows up is a brown hippie and not a white Republican in a suit and that by their rules, they're all going to the lake of fire, not the rest of us.
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It's a war that shouldn't be happening to begin with. Anyone who actually cares about American national security wants green energy. That's the only way we get out of the Middle East.
America does not want to be out of the Middle East.
Gubmint clearly doesn't. The government isn't serious about national security, they're serious about committing insider trading. But the people? There were absolutely people who believed Trump on "no new wars."
Oil means centralized control through imposed scarcity. You can't stop the sun and wind...yet, but I'm sure they're working on it.
Montgomery Burns has an idea about that.
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It’s going horribly because it is a stupid fucking war and Iran has geographic advantages in that it is positioned right next to the most important energy transit point on the planet. Going to war Iran is inherently stupid. It is a dumbfuck thing to do
Unless the goal wasn't to win the war but sabotage that transit point while dropping sanctions on a certain nation so it could re-fill its war chest?
Tinfoil time...
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He may be demented/insane, but it's not like he's any worse than he ever was. He's ALWAYS been like this.
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