WARNING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE: If You Are Thinking Of Joining The US Military, BEWARE!

Turns out the US ain’t really ready for real war. Huh, imagine that, arrogance and corporate corruption don’t outwit combat superiority on the battlefield. Dang!

Cartoon by Mark Taylor / DeMOCKracy,ink

When it comes to US wars, all lives — yes, even American lives — are just so many chips on Wall Street’s goopy, gory gameboard.

By Mark Taylor
DeMOCKracy.ink (5/12/24)

With ol’ “Genocide” Joe Biden, Congress and the bloodsuckers of the Military Industrial Complex and Nato clearly heading us off to war with Russia — and perhaps China, just to keep things interesting — oh, and also the greater Middle East — young people who may be considering military enlistment need to know this: outdated, ignorant US military training may actually kill you. That’s not me, some lefty, saying that, it’s Business Insider (5/2) reporting the brutal reality of inadequate modern military training.

Turns out training up to bully small, scattered, moderately armed insurgent groups is not the same game as peer-on-peer modern warfare, like Ukraine, where the other side has weaponry as good — or better — than yours. Despite the current stomach-turning $848.9 billion boondoggle War Department budget — more than the next nine countries combined — and some 800 military bases, turns out the US ain’t really ready for real war.

As for the grinding WW I trench warfare of Ukraine … fergeddabout!

Huh, imagine that, national arrogance doesn’t outwit combat superiority or reality on the battlefield.

Dang!

“Bully-Boy” wars

In addition to knowing the military brass always trains for the last war, it’s also handy to remember that despite the trillions flushed down the shitty sewer holes of corporate war contractors, the U.S. has decisively lost every “bully-boy” war we’ve engineered, sponsored, funded and goosed along since WW II.

After 20 years of occupation, trillions torched, god-only-knows how many killed and wounded, when the US skedaddled from Afghanistan, the Taliban slipped right back into power. We even had to depend upon Taliban intel to worm our way out of the country. If one could ignore the senseless tragedy and destruction we left behind, it was almost as if we were never there.

Only two years later Biden and Nato gamed up the Ukraine war by ordering the Ukrainians to walk away from an already agreed upon peace treaty with Russia.

So what is high-dollar US/Nato western military training like down on the battlefield? Business Insider serves up a sample:

“…some Ukrainian soldiers who were trained in the UK told him that when they asked how to get through Russia's vast minefields, they were told to just go around them.

“But the problem is that Ukraine says that some of Russia's minefields stretch for miles, making such a strategy all but impossible. Furthermore, open areas that are not mined may already be targeted by artillery or other battlefield threats.”

Not to worry, the decision was written up for a snappy PowerPoint presentation in a Northern Virginia war contractor boardroom after carefully balancing quantifiable investment-profit portfolio ratio factors, so it must be right.

Right?

C’mon, you crusty cynics out there — they wouldn’t lie to us when it comes to the lives and wellbeing of our kids.

Right?

Truly, if you know any military-aged young people — especially any considering enlisting now — forward the Business Insider article below. They need to know there is a real chance they would never get to cash in on those promised recruitment bonus college benefits because when it comes to US wars, all lives — yes, even American lives — are just so many chips on Wall Street’s goopy, gory gameboard.

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US Vet In Ukraine Sends A Warning: The US Spent So Much Time Fighting Insurgents That It Forgot 'what it means to actually fight a war’

A Ukrainian commander who was trained by US, British, and Polish soldiers said last year that if he had followed those countries' advice exactly, he would have been killed.

By Sinéad Baker
Business Insider (5/2/24)

An American veteran who fought in Ukraine said the US military spent so long focused on fighting insurgents that it forgot "what it means to actually fight a war."

"We have neglected a lot of the training" on "how to fight and survive in a peer-on-peer adversary war," the veteran, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told Business Insider.

He said that "in the US military, we mostly have been focusing on a guerilla war" and battling insurgents, with places with Iraq and Afghanistan in mind. The US military invested decades, billions of dollars, and thousands of lives into fights in these places.

Another American veteran in Ukraine told BI this month that he had similar concerns. He said that his friends still in the US Army ask him for tips on how to fight with drones or in trenches, as they aren't getting training that fully reflects what is happening in Ukraine.

The former soldier spoke about how his training with the US military a number of years ago compared to what he saw in Ukraine, where he started fighting when Russia's full-scale invasion began in February 2022 and left last December.

From guerilla to industrial-scale war

He said he fought in Iraq as a contractor after leaving the US military, and in Ukraine, he fought in hotspots like Kharkiv and Bakhmut. He served as his unit's combat medic, treating comrades when they were injured in the fight.

"We've gotten so used to the idea of just fighting guerilla wars and fucking fighting terrorists and everything else that we kind of forgot what it means to actually fight a war," he said.

The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan were real wars that came at a severe cost in human lives, but the war in Ukraine is industrial warfare at levels of destruction like the world has not seen in a long time.

With the focus on the wars in the Middle East during much of this century, the US and some of its NATO allies in Europe allowed the skills needed for this kind of conflict to atrophy. …

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