There is a little bit of nuance in there...

For millenials at least, a lot of us grew up with Boomer parents, who saw a very defensive military. Fighting for us against foes who truly wished harm upon us (i.e. Nazis/Axis). These were folks you could proudly look up to.

Whereas what more modern generations have grown up with is an offensive military, which seemingly goes out of its way to create conflict. Not to defend us, but to defend the interests of the rich - including fighting the very public whose tax money funds said military.

And there's no better proof of this than people's opinion of Ukraine's military (outside of tankies) versus the US military.

When I was younger, I believed this. But defending innocent people from invading forces is an honorable thing.

It's a bit more difficult when your building gets bombed and now your wife and child are dead and it will keep happening unless you do something about it.

No war but the class war.

idk, killing fascists for example is pretty solid in my book

If you give societies full of amoral, self-centered, antisocial and nihilistic sharp pens, they might try to stab their way into riches and comfort. The way I see it, either humanity will develop into a group that can be trusted, because of ideology and personal decision (you've seen what happens when they just follow their basest desires), with power or it will drive itself extinct.

I'm saying this in a very uhh "politically correct" way but the vast majority of people understand Western imperialism is the enemy of humanity and most of those suffer it everyday. We will survive the West and the West will change its ways or the West will parasitise and corrupt everything before engaging in autophagy.