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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

and if he had refused to do as commanded would he have been shot himself?

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If the army starts shooting its own soldiers, it's not going to exist for very long. You can read very obscure stories about occasional killings during the Vietnam War, but those are almost always things that happened in the jungle when nobody would ever find out.

If they try that kinda thing in Israel today, it's not going to be a secret, and all of the other infantry and their family are going to wonder who is next, which in turn would massively reduce support for the Israeli military.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

there was a story of an iraq war soldier killed by his own squad a couple years ago. thats what put the thought in my head

[–] 4lan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No he would sit in a jail cell. As a trained soldier no one would fuck with him

Essentially a perfectly risk-free environment. But he chose murder instead

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hope these IDF soldiers wake up. You can't kill people without killing part of yourself.

[–] 4lan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm seeing so many parallels to our false wars in the Middle East. The vast majority of US soldiers who died did so by suicide.

Also netanyahu trying to create more generations of terrorism so he can have forever wars that keep him in absolute control. That's literally what we did, he is copying us play by play. Or perhaps we have a hand in what is happening as well... At least our intelligence agencies that is

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

The violence in that region predates both Iraq wars. Israel has no need to copy the U.S. here. It's important to remember that the situation is multiple generations of on-again-off-again violence, except now the scale is way up on the killings.

[–] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Sympathy for the devil

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