If y’all want a look at how depraved US soldiers are, I suggest watching The Kill Team. It’s about some fuckheads who were found guilty of killing random Afghan civilians for the thrill of it and planting weapons on them to make it seem like they were insurgents. At one point in the documentary one of these monsters is like “lots of other people do this, we didn’t think we’d get caught.” So keep in mind that the atrocities that we see in the US media are only a small fraction of the murders unjustifiable even by US military standards that soldiers regularly inflict, and most people who do anything will get to go on with their lives as usual.
this post made me go watch it and I’m 15 minutes in and I had to stop and take a break before continuing i think i’m going to throw up. these guys are literally sitting there talking about how when they first entered the field they were excited and thought the firefights and violence were awesome but when it tapered off into being more about retrieving information and interacting with civilians they became frustrated and bored, and you can hear the defensiveness and resentment still in their voices that reality was not living up to their extremely violent fantasy of what war would be and what they had so eagerly signed up for. They speak so casually about murdering civilians and planting weapons on them like it’s some natural progression of their disappointment and dissatisfaction. the ‘what else were we supposed to do?’ tone in their voice is fucking terrifying. they enlisted because they wanted to kill anyone they could without consequences and when their bloodthirst wasn’t satisfied in any ‘official’ capacity they fabricated ‘justifiable’ scenarios in order to murder people freely. they’re just serial killers. they’re serial killers but they have convinced themselves and other people they’re somehow different because their victims didn’t look like them and they wore uniforms as they killed them.
