Can’t say I disagree.
I have a son in the USN and I think he’s decided to get out after his 4 years.
I don’t want him to get tangled up in these BS conflicts which are really just about money and power.
No one seriously believes it anymore: “democracy, human rights, sovereignty...” These are silly battle cries used to motivate the masses while our entire Middle East strategy is built around a despot kingdom Saudi Arabia, while we give a single party communist regime, the PRC, most favored trade status year after year...
Of the 251 military operations post 1991, maybe a handful can be argued to be about true self-defense/national security for us. The rest?
***The expeditionary, offensive (but we often lie and pretend it’s defensive), without Congressional approval, often in secrecy, where no one can articulate a true national security argument for us, has become the norm.***
***The military intervention where US policy makers CANNOT tell the average American how this war will make them more free, safe, or wealthy, has become the norm.***
These are military campaigns at the behest of special interests that stand to profit from them. That simple.
Irony, it was the left in the 60s, 70s and 80s that screamed “no blood for oil,” called us a “hegemony” and “world policeman,” which said that war should be a last resort and not used for economic gain. Back then, we actually were fighting a real enemy in the Cold War, the Warsaw Pact and Soviet Union. Today, it is under leftist leaders, like Obama, Biden, in Europe (Macron, Scholz...) where they called Reagan a “Saber Rattler” that are quick to use force and almost always for economic gain, we propagandize and censor our own public... Funny-
In fact, today you basically do not even hear anything about the idea of a just war anymore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_war_theory
Today, we just superficially gloss over this idea with our policy makers throwing out some cliche’s of how our enemy is the bad guy, slap a label on them, and use a bunch of unsolicited qualifying remarks that do not even make any sense to describe the situation.
Ukraine is the PERFECT example. The justification for war today is as silly and shallow, funny really, as something from a Monty Python show. Literally nothing holds up under scrutiny, neither the arguments for why Russia is this evil empire (we provoked Russia: we lied, we cheated, we broke numerous promises and are hypocrites in expecting them to accept what we never would) and bad guy, nor why we are defending Ukraine for democracy, sovereignty and human rights none of which are real either. You just need to throw around some slogans, it doesn’t matter if they are entirely baseless, the people don’t know better and the MSM won’t really look to hard.
The problem with your post for many is that you hit upon the truth about what is going on.
These globalist wars are for setting up the world government. People are purposely deluded into believing their brand of democracy like it is a good thing, Notice how they always scream that people are fighting for “our democracy”.
Yeah they are, they are being sacrificed to fight for he globalist fake democracy that either bullies, instigates coups of rightful leaders who disagree, or for out and out war if needed to advance the evil.
They will keep doing this until they they own every last smidgen of mother earth. They will kill using pandemics, wars, famines, assassinations, even nukes, until they get what they want.
They have stepped on the gas in recent years and as we speak are concocting plots against humanity.
My son was in the Navy during the Clinton years and did two stints. Then he got out. I am glad he doesn’t have to serve under this evil cabal for reasons that have nothing to do with actual freedom and safety for Americans.