War has changed.
It's no longer about ideals, resources or nationalities.
Its a neverending celebration of wrongdoing; governments, businesses and journalists prematurely take a side depending on what they hear from the other and proceed to celebrate that faction and overlook the blood on its hands. To them, there's no grey: just black and white.
War has changed.
Companies ban services, goods and funding to countries, just so they can virtue signal in spite of all the distrust they'll create. Entertainment people rig tournaments in favour of the country whom the government has sided with and news outlets are dedicated to propaganda openly demonising entire nations rather than the ones at the top responsible. The glorification of war, and those who are as guilty as their enemies, has become a well-oiled machine. All in the span of 5 months.
War has changed.
When the West applies its woke mentalities to the battlefield... When people who push far-left ideologies interfere with matters that should've never concerned them... When we dedicate our man-power to those who don't need it, rather than those who do...
War becomes routine.
[based on Solid/Old Snake's opening speech from the 2008 video game Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]
War was always routine for the elites. Business as usual. Those ideals were part of the indoctrination the elites forced on the cannon fodder so that they willingly died for their "cause"
War constantly changes and it stays the same. Is still elites manipulating plebs to fight for their own glory and fortune.
There is a book from the 30s I think called War is a racket
Written by USMC General and WWI hero Smedley Butler. Recommended reading for all, but very few are able to actually engage with his conclusions, because it requires accepting that you have engaged with and supported, possibly perpetrated, evil.
Nothing has changed. Bread and circuses. He who has the gold makes the rules. The MIC profits. Rinse. Repeat. Die.
This isn't new. There has always been a ton of the same sort of propaganda.
But this feels worse. Like Vietnam times 2356.
I mean, the west are openly supporting Azov. Seriously!
The West aligned with Stalin FFS. The only thing a bit unusual is how potent the contradiction is between the foreign and domestic disposition.
If you think war has changed, you have never fucking paid attention.
Cringe.
Since when was voicing your negative opinions on the shaping future of how society treats war cringe?
It's the execution that's cringe.
I was thinking about this, how blood thirsty little old ladies can be, and how little concern they seem to have that if this escalates enough, their grand children might end up in the firing line.
Then I remember women handing out white feathers to any man not in uniform in 1914. Nothing really had changed.