If you actually want a revolution in the West, especially the US, you need to gain the support of a significant chunk of the military. There’s no other way. And the people in the military who are open to being radicalised are precisely the “poor boys” you’re criticising right now.
In my experience, the vast majority of veterans are either broken people who need help more than they can provide, true believers who will go down with the settler-colonial ship, or completely unhinged who give off spree shooter vibes. The idea that veterans will impact us with their hardcore combat training is complete bogus. Most veterans have mundane jobs at the military with identical civilian counterparts. One veteran I know spend his service driving trucks in Germany. How is he any different from the millions of civilian truck drivers? Another had combat experience in Iraq, the stereotype of the vet who’ll give us loser civilians the combat experience we desperately need, except he basically slept right next to a burn pit throughout his time in Iraq, which means you know his lungs are absolutely fucked. Last time I check up on him, he was going to get a colonoscopy as a 35 year old man because someone from his platoon who also had to sleep next to those burn pits got colon cancer.
I wish people would mystify veterans less. They’re not that different from civilians at the end of the day.
No, we need to split the active military personnel. I’m not talking about old dudes here.
I’m not sure how you would directly reach people in active duty. Even people like Mike Prysner mostly target vets. It’s not like you could just walk to a military base and hand out pamphlets to random soldiers. Active soldiers also have their social media completely monitored. All those Tiktoks of soldiers dicking around or posting thirst traps should be understood as part of a massive PR/psyop campaign that aims to humanize soldiers in front of an increasingly skeptical and cynical public. Not every single psyop attempt is as cringey as the army trying to form an esports team. Those Tiktoks are completely inorganic.
