Overall yes as to impersonality of the elite,but other ethnicities were a very small percent of combat fatalities. Even recently White males were 84% of Afghanistan deaths and 81% of Iraq death, far higher than our proportion in uniform or society. No lack of props to those non-Whites brothers who stood up for the meat grinder, however. I never faced combat, myself
Once the combat largely ceased, I got an email during the 2nd Obama term that promotions would be prioritized for diversity. Put in to resign my commission the next day.
Friends kid was in till recently and it's bad. Al Queda and Isis were threats, but DEI is a direct and present threat to me. In the country both my parents lines were in well before independence, where we have served during all major conflicts, I'm expected to embrace being a second class citizen?
No. I will not answer a recall. I will tell White kids not to join and already do.
We haven't fought a legal war since WWII. There have been no declarations of war, as the constitution demands. Every president that got us into these conflicts needs to be tried for treason.
A great-great uncle of mine fought in the Alps during WW1.
Incredibly, he came face to face one day, alone, with an enemy soldier. These people were farmers, workers, thrown into the meat grinder of trench warfare. Well, my great uncle, frightened, fired. He aimed for the legs, however, because he didn't have the guts to kill. Then he reached the wounded man, shouldered him and took him to the nearest hospital.
From that time on, and for the rest of his life, my great uncle received an annual Christmas card of greetings from his "enemy".
My grandmother, born in 1925, who was his niece, told me the story countless times.
True, this story sounds rhetorical and perhaps a little pathetic. Yet it is very instructive.
I served in the Navy and got out in 1997. Would NEVER join now. We are a corrupt war mongering empire that is sliding down histories back side. So very sad!!
Morgthorak, profound piece, thank you. I lost a very dear older brother in Vietnam, drafted, killed in action in August 1968. That was one thing that nudged me down the radical resistance road in my youth. I also lost an Uncle in WW2, killed in action on D-Day 1941, buried in Normandy. WW2 , as horrifying as it was, had to be fought. Vietnam, no and I truly feel for the Vietnamese people who were caught in the middle of warring factions. Creedence was a great band, the Fogarty brothers had some heartfelt and primal songs, of which I greatly enjoyed. John Fogarty's voice was very powerful. I also recommend an Alice in Chains song, "Rooster", a very visceral song written about lead singer Layne Staley's Father, who fought in Vietnam. The background vid during the song could have been taken from the movie "Apocalypse Now" (I don't know, as I did not see that war movie). Anyway, the horror of war never goes away. It is an ancient plague of human beings. I cannot imagine just being born into this world right now...it was gnarly enough growing up a Boomer, after WW2 and then right into Vietnam for my generation. My brother Tommy was not a warrior type, but got drafted anyway and died for this madness. Deep thinking must be thought on all this sorrow. Thank you again, Morg, for your writing on this subject.
As much as I hate to say it, this is the absolute truth. To "serve" in the military is to serve the elite. It has nothing to do with serving your country or your countrymen.
Modern day US is like the ancient Canaanite civilization of Carthage: extremely powerful melting pot military empire ✅, service based economy built on a house of cards ✅, infanticide at the forefront of politics ✅, list goes on
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Oh don't tempt me to use the banned triple parenthesis for the term "ethnic oligarchs," LOL!
On a serious note I always loved CCR, they were the least pretentious of the 60s hippy bands, IMO, almost more country than rock. I can sing all their songs from memory.
Males everywhere (not just whites) have been brainwashed to associate masculinity with blind obedient and subservience to daddy figures, because they never had an empowering father figure. True men hate taking orders, and they don't sell out their individual sovereignty for mercenary blood money. Great article. Will share.
I have two young sons. I did 4 years in the U.S. Army. I will actively dissuade them from serving in the U.S. military. Instead, I will encourage them to get real skills and choose to be an EMT, Firefighter, etc if they want to serve their fellow citizens.
The U.S. gov doesn’t give a shit about soldiers in times of peace, and certainly not in times of war.
The U.S. government only cares about federal employees who pay union dues and spend 40 years donating part of their generous paychecks to Democrats.
Don’t go die or get maimed to advance the interests of investment bankers and idiotic ivy league morons who treat foreign policy like they’re playing a game of chess…..where they’re the arrogant novices that lose time and time again while finding any excuse to blame anything but their own stupidity and ignorance.
So, undead, great way to start my morning listening to this song.
Question: would you personally consider fighting in a war, let's say against a Chinese battalion that was marching up Los Angele's Santa Monica Blvd toward downtown?
It is one thing to not want to fight for your country, while pigs are running things.
And to my mind, another to defend your own family, friends, and community from invasion.
Overall yes as to impersonality of the elite,but other ethnicities were a very small percent of combat fatalities. Even recently White males were 84% of Afghanistan deaths and 81% of Iraq death, far higher than our proportion in uniform or society. No lack of props to those non-Whites brothers who stood up for the meat grinder, however. I never faced combat, myself
Once the combat largely ceased, I got an email during the 2nd Obama term that promotions would be prioritized for diversity. Put in to resign my commission the next day.
Friends kid was in till recently and it's bad. Al Queda and Isis were threats, but DEI is a direct and present threat to me. In the country both my parents lines were in well before independence, where we have served during all major conflicts, I'm expected to embrace being a second class citizen?
No. I will not answer a recall. I will tell White kids not to join and already do.
We haven't fought a legal war since WWII. There have been no declarations of war, as the constitution demands. Every president that got us into these conflicts needs to be tried for treason.
A great-great uncle of mine fought in the Alps during WW1.
Incredibly, he came face to face one day, alone, with an enemy soldier. These people were farmers, workers, thrown into the meat grinder of trench warfare. Well, my great uncle, frightened, fired. He aimed for the legs, however, because he didn't have the guts to kill. Then he reached the wounded man, shouldered him and took him to the nearest hospital.
From that time on, and for the rest of his life, my great uncle received an annual Christmas card of greetings from his "enemy".
My grandmother, born in 1925, who was his niece, told me the story countless times.
True, this story sounds rhetorical and perhaps a little pathetic. Yet it is very instructive.
I served in the Navy and got out in 1997. Would NEVER join now. We are a corrupt war mongering empire that is sliding down histories back side. So very sad!!
Morgthorak, profound piece, thank you. I lost a very dear older brother in Vietnam, drafted, killed in action in August 1968. That was one thing that nudged me down the radical resistance road in my youth. I also lost an Uncle in WW2, killed in action on D-Day 1941, buried in Normandy. WW2 , as horrifying as it was, had to be fought. Vietnam, no and I truly feel for the Vietnamese people who were caught in the middle of warring factions. Creedence was a great band, the Fogarty brothers had some heartfelt and primal songs, of which I greatly enjoyed. John Fogarty's voice was very powerful. I also recommend an Alice in Chains song, "Rooster", a very visceral song written about lead singer Layne Staley's Father, who fought in Vietnam. The background vid during the song could have been taken from the movie "Apocalypse Now" (I don't know, as I did not see that war movie). Anyway, the horror of war never goes away. It is an ancient plague of human beings. I cannot imagine just being born into this world right now...it was gnarly enough growing up a Boomer, after WW2 and then right into Vietnam for my generation. My brother Tommy was not a warrior type, but got drafted anyway and died for this madness. Deep thinking must be thought on all this sorrow. Thank you again, Morg, for your writing on this subject.
As much as I hate to say it, this is the absolute truth. To "serve" in the military is to serve the elite. It has nothing to do with serving your country or your countrymen.
Modern day US is like the ancient Canaanite civilization of Carthage: extremely powerful melting pot military empire ✅, service based economy built on a house of cards ✅, infanticide at the forefront of politics ✅, list goes on
It ain't me! It ain't meeeee! I ain't no fortunate... non-binary, genderfluid offspriiiiiing!
Oh don't tempt me to use the banned triple parenthesis for the term "ethnic oligarchs," LOL!
On a serious note I always loved CCR, they were the least pretentious of the 60s hippy bands, IMO, almost more country than rock. I can sing all their songs from memory.
The military worked out well for me but I stopped recommending it to others in the 1980s
I would add,
COPPERHEAD Road by Steve Earle as well.
And Metallica, One,
And Johnny got his gun.
Males everywhere (not just whites) have been brainwashed to associate masculinity with blind obedient and subservience to daddy figures, because they never had an empowering father figure. True men hate taking orders, and they don't sell out their individual sovereignty for mercenary blood money. Great article. Will share.
I have two young sons. I did 4 years in the U.S. Army. I will actively dissuade them from serving in the U.S. military. Instead, I will encourage them to get real skills and choose to be an EMT, Firefighter, etc if they want to serve their fellow citizens.
The U.S. gov doesn’t give a shit about soldiers in times of peace, and certainly not in times of war.
The U.S. government only cares about federal employees who pay union dues and spend 40 years donating part of their generous paychecks to Democrats.
Don’t go die or get maimed to advance the interests of investment bankers and idiotic ivy league morons who treat foreign policy like they’re playing a game of chess…..where they’re the arrogant novices that lose time and time again while finding any excuse to blame anything but their own stupidity and ignorance.
I agree with Madjack. I did 8 years in the chAir Force. 84 - 92. There is no way I'd serve now. Tell your children no.
Sorry to disappoint you, but the issue of skin colour has very little to do with this subject, you know.
Many of the wars fought by the US were waged before the emergence of wokism, and people of all ethnicities died in those wars.
The issue is another, namely that nation-states arrogate to themselves the right to own the lives of their citizens.
In most cases, no person has any interest in participating in any war, imperialistic or otherwise.
CCR, great band.
So, undead, great way to start my morning listening to this song.
Question: would you personally consider fighting in a war, let's say against a Chinese battalion that was marching up Los Angele's Santa Monica Blvd toward downtown?
It is one thing to not want to fight for your country, while pigs are running things.
And to my mind, another to defend your own family, friends, and community from invasion.