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There are two ways of interpreting your ask here.

One is that we should see the volunteer soldiers of the imperialist US military as akin to victims of human trafficking. This is ridiculous. US soldiers absolutely know what they are getting into, even if they may change their minds later down the line. The conditions of military service are laid out ahead of time, US soldiers are more than able to communicate with the outside world and most soldiers already know one or more people in the military to begin with and are capable of talking to them and learning what military service is like. Does the military make it seem as if military service is more glamorous or fulfilling than it actually is? Certainly. But the same goes for job recruiters in any industry. Human trafficking is not merely any instance in which your employer lied to you about the job.

Additionally, this comparison to sex trafficking is all the more outrageous considering the infamous number of rapes, assaults, and murders committed by US armed forces in and around foreign military bases (all of these sources are sympathetic to the US, which only goes to show how pervasive the issue is for pro-US sources to call it out):

Women and the U.S. Military in East Asia, Foreign Policy In Focus, March 1, 1999

From Guardian Angels to Pests to Korean: The United States Forces and Their Criminal Acts in Korean Society, Advances in Applied Sociology, April 2016

Okinawan rights ignored as military crimes persist, East Asia Forum, August 20, 2025

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