The Army will now allow recruits to enlist up to age 42 and has removed a waiver requirement for those with a marijuana-related conviction.

The Army will now allow recruits to enlist up to age 42 and has removed a waiver requirement for those with a marijuana-related conviction.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    7·
    1 day ago

    And Trump will be following Russians lead.

    We lost 58,000 in Vietnam in over 10 years, and less than 5000 in Afghanistan in 20 years. Putin has lost 1.2 million in 4 years.

    Trump is going to fight a war like Putin, because he will see those deaths as a score, and the more people that sacrifice their lives for him, the more important he is in history. People talk about Hitler and Stalin because of how many people they killed, so if he wants to be remembered for all time, he has to get real dictator numbers for his war.

    BTW, when it becomes clear that he doesn’t know what he’s doing, and he is just sending American soldiers to die in an endless meat-grinder war, enlistments will end. Then he’s going to call for a draft, and literally enslave young American men to die for him.

    Running up the war dead because he thinks it makes him look more powerful is typical Trump logic.

    • lechekaflan@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 day ago

      Fascism is but a cult of death.

      In such a perspective everybody is educated to become a hero. In every mythology the hero is an exceptional being, but in Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death. It is not by chance that a motto of the Falangists was Viva la Muerte (in English it should be translated as “Long Live Death!”). In non-fascist societies, the lay public is told that death is unpleasant but must be faced with dignity; believers are told that it is the painful way to reach a supernatural happiness. By contrast, the Ur-Fascist hero craves heroic death, advertised as the best reward for a heroic life. The Ur-Fascist hero is impatient to die. In his impatience, he more frequently sends other people to death.

      https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
        0·
        1 day ago

        It’s the old propaganda strategy of making war, and dying in war, GLORIOUS and ROMANTIC.

        No, it’s just stupid, ESPECIALLY this type of war. This isn’t even being done for economic opportunity, which is evil, but at least understandable from a Capitalistic perspective, but this kind of war makes no sense. There is literally no reason or advantage to it. I think it was supposed to make Trump look tough or something, but it’s only made him look stupider - even to his own followers.

        And we haven’t forgotten the Epstein Files, we’ve just added this war to the list of his atrocities to attach to his name for all history.

        • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip
          3·
          18 hours ago

          He’s been claiming other presidents would attack Iran when their popularity dipped for the last 15 years. Not surprising he does it as his own tanks from the Epstein shit

          • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
            1·
            18 hours ago

            Conservative presidents have always thought that being a war president cements your place in history. They were throwing that around quite a bit during the GW Bush administration.