Tumblr user tsarina-anadyomene: it really is quite bad for your military to have an image of itself as a warrior class. what you really want is for your soldiers to think of themselves as boring professionals who will fill out a report form if someone gets a little too warrior ethos out there

Tumblr user gsot: [Screenshot of Bluesky user Ruth Baader-Meinhoff @sm-6.bluesky.social: the lesson of WWII is that aesthetic warrior cult societies get their shit rocked by school teachers and store clerks who'd much rather be doing anything else]

Tumblr user drmajalis: [Screenshot of Bluesky user William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social: one of the oldest running dialogues in history is "war is a massively complicated political, bureaucratic and logistical endeavour" vs. "fuck you pussy, war is when you're a fucking badass, oh shit I lost"]
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[–] 21 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Turns out wars are won by the people who would really rather not be at war

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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    Mmh..Afghans see war as a social event and that seems to work for them.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    Afghans have had people fucking their shit up for like 4 generations now .. they don't really know anything else, pretty sure they were relatively normal prior to the US and USSR fuckery.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    It's been a battle ground as long as empires have existed

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I mean, you could say the same thing about Europe .. but the current state of things in Afghanistan is definitely a result of the last 50 odd years of global super powers meddling.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago* (4 children)

    Me too. You can add the islamist fuckery to your list.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Wasn't the islamist fuckery a result of CIA fuckery attempting to quash a moderate socialist government?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    CIA funded islamists but did not create them. They gained broad popular support after Soviet occupation of Afghanistan when initial Afghani communist government imploded and USSR took control and installed their own puppet.

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