There are no winners or losers in war, there are the dead and people who have to live with it.
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2026
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Soldiers are just numbers. Numbers are part of statistics, not of human emotions
On brand for Plastered Pete or should I say Hogwash Hegseth.
Kegsbreath
And all this time I've just been calling him "Drunk Pete." "Kegsbreath" is fantastic.
Worked as a civilian (GS) for the army for 30 year. This is pretty much SOP.
Everyone talks about honoring soldiers, but in every conflict they are used and discarded, like a used tissue. They come back with life long illness and are just abandoned.
It’s despicable, but is not new. No administration wants to pay the full bill for their wars.
Accurate. We "have no idea what gulf war syndrome is".
Havana syndrome? Eh it's not worth looking into.
"PTSD? Sounds like pussy syndrome to me."
They don't give a fuck about soldiers beyond the "respect". Very few of my coworkers know that I'm a veteran. I don't want questions that they want to ask, and I definitely don't want some conservative mfer to thank me for my service. I seriously hate that shit. I didn't do anything that makes you more safe.
They acknowledge that people go places and do stuff that "messes them up" but refuse to even attempt understanding mental health. "My cousin came back crazy, he won't talk about what they did to him" without realizing that "they" is the system of continuous wars for wartime experience and the military industrial complex's profits, despite them engineering for a war that doesn't exist.
God, I hate the “Thank you for your service” bullshit. I get it all the time and I wasn’t even enlisted. Especially from the conservatives, who thank you, then vote to cut benefits. It’s like fingers down a chalk board.
You hit the nail on the head really. I lived with an old UK Marine for two years up until recently and I 100% agree that no-one came back the same but also none of them are really able to adapt back to civilian life because, as you say, they are discarded by the system rather than been given the help they need.
It is quite saddening to see.
Havana syndrome? Eh it's not worth looking into.
That's reserved for CIA operatives willing and able to convert the guilt of their actions into projection of an imagined enemy.
but also:
It's just Cicadas.
Only 18% of vets get the full benefits they're entitled to. And that statistic was pre-Trump2
The “pilot rescue”…I haven’t seen any pilots, but I saw a lot of blown up wreckage…
This seems entirely plausible, there is no accountability in this administration.
You mean Pentagon Pete, the Piss Poor Peruser of Alcohol and Pedophile Protector?
Not Pentagon Pete, the Paragon of Truth!?
He's got 10 shades of eyeliner and lipstick to dress this pig up with.