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Trump threats cause dilemma for US officers: disobey orders or commit war crimes
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2026
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Based on how the US military has behaved throughout both recent and more distant history, yeah, the answer's obvious.
They're going to obey.
They're not just going to obey, they'll make videos of it to pass it around as trophies and their citizens will wave it off like it's normal occurrence.
To be fair many will become disillusioned and realize the error of their ways and join us in time on some issues, at which point most of you will reject them for not being pure enough, where they will be soaked up by cynical motherfuckers on the right wing, and we will continue to lose. Sweet dreams.
If they participated in any of these events and it took them years to figure out that it was wrong then I highly doubt they'd vote for anything other than MAGA anyway
Ah yes, only the pure can cooperate on what we agree on. And Israel and the US government is whispering in your ear about who is pure or not aren't they? They are. Wake the fuck up.
Have you actually read into some of the shit Americans have done? I wouldn't even want to fucking cooperate with anyone who took part in the My Lai massacre or anything else like that.
To copy/paste from Wikipedia:
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edit: oh and the most justice that came of that was that one person got house arrest for three years
Oh, and all citizens are guilty of their government's crimes? I seem to recall some shit about Canada by the way. Not so polite eh?
I'm not sure we're talking about the same people here. I'd hesitantly lend more sympathy to an American soldier more broadly fighting in this war but not to those who directly commit war crimes whether that be shooting (and worse) children or knowingly dropping bombs on schools or hospitals.
Anyone who doesn't immediately know that's wrong has something severely wrong with them
edit: and also yeah, regarding your point about Canada doesn't really change anything. I'd feel exactly the same way regarding any Canadian soldier doing the same thing. While Canada is feeling quite nice right now compared to the USA, we've done and continue to do some absolutely vile shit, no question
You are right, I went off half cocked there. I mean I agree, these people should have known better when they signed up to be perfectly honest. Now are they stupid? The answer is yes, but more charitably we could call that misguided. And or self-interested. Nevertheless, we can't reject everybody that is on some issues while agreeing with us on others, not if we want to win, and we should cooperate on what we agree on, when it comes to that.