• Serinus@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The military isn’t all bad. Our role in WW2 was pretty righteous. What we do with Ukraine is helping to fight evil.

    As much as we’ve screwed up Iraq, it’s hard to say if they’d have been better off staying under Saddam.

    Helping South Korea and defending NATO is pretty good.

    I see some National Guard in here. Helping Ruby Bridges get to school was good work. The National Guard often swoops in to help in natural disasters.

    Half our Navy is made up of giant, floating hospitals.

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      9 months ago

      Serial killers aren’t all bad either. They keep the homeless population in check and Ted Bundy was a leader in his community. /s

      The military is like the “orphan crushing machine.” No one asks why it exists. We’re just supposed to accept that it’s necessary. And in some ways it is. But shouldn’t we strive for a world without a need for military.

      Some might say, “well, that’s what America is doing. It’s the strongest military to maintain peace.” But this logic is flawed. When your military becomes so big, it’s never going to dissolve itself when necessary for peace. It becomes a power unto itself.

      Eisenhower warned us about the military industrial complex but we didn’t listen.

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        9 months ago

        But shouldn’t we strive for a world without a need for military.

        I don’t know what kind of world you live in, but the US military is not the primary issue here.

        The MIC and the military in general are two very different things. I’m glad in the current century and political climate to have a standing, volunteer military.