• BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    I highly recommend Kill Anything that Moves by Nick Turse. The My Lai massacre wasn’t the exception, it was the rule. The true scale of rape and murder by U.S. forces - often against our supposed “allies” among civilian South Vietnamese - may never truly be known. But Turse has done an admirable job in trying to discern it.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Do you feel the same about the North Koreans fighting for Russia in Ukraine? Because the average American 18 year old is similarly brainwashed and uneducated…

      • Lucien [he/him]@mander.xyz
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        5 hours ago

        The atrocities the American soldiers committed on the daily are unforgivable. Period. I don’t care if they were drafted or if they volunteered for being barbarians.

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        11 hours ago

        A few years in jail for dodging the draft is better than committing crimes against humanity.

        No one is drafted against their will, there are simply people that value their freedom to kill far more than others lives.