“But among those who have shot and been shot at, and who have lost bothers in arms, the attitude toward war is much more reserved.”
Gotta agree with that one. That’s a prime reason I believe the Uke war is a European war and we have zero business paying for it or depleting our military stockpiles for it. Our attention should be focused on the real enemy, the one that has their tentacles deeply embedded into the whole country, and that enemy is Red China.
The average war monger has never been shot at. The target range hero with the perfect gun and perfect score would run like a scared rabbit if that target shot back. The average Joe’s concept of war comes from movies and games. It’s so easy to support something you know nothing about.
“”””Our attention should be focused on the real enemy, the one that has their tentacles deeply embedded into the whole country, and that enemy is Red China.”””””
War mongers support the Russian war, the invasion.
We and most of NATO and our Pacific allies are rebuilding our military readiness and increasing weapons factories and manufacturing and have reevaluated the amounts of some weapon items and ammo we should be making and stockpiling.
Japan, Australia, the Philippines, South Korea, and others are all reacting to what they are learning from Russia’s war.
We are much better off in our position against Red China than we were 22 months ago and we can thank the Russian war-mongers for launching the biggest European war since WWII for waking up the West and the Pacific.