That’s a very cynical view. Their country is their master, if they got invaded, like Ukraine do, then them fighting for their master(or country, if you will) is fighting for freedom.
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
There has never been a time where soldiers were fighting for freedom. They fight for their master.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
ICastFist@programming.dev 10 months ago
Fighting foreign enemies at home doesn’t automatically make it a “fight for freedom”. Case in point: Taliban vs USA
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
You don’t think the Taliban were fighting for their freedom?
What were they fighting for then?
ICastFist@programming.dev 10 months ago
Fighting for power first and foremost, but I guess you could go and say it was for the “freedom to rule”
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Fighting foreign enemies at home doesn’t automatically make it a “fight for freedom”.
Uhh no shit, nuance is important.
UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Maybe not in our lifetime, but you’re really going to say ww2 wasn’t to stop evil? What about the civil war?
ICastFist@programming.dev 10 months ago
ww2 wasn’t to stop evil?
It wasn’t, thinking so is a very absurd reduction of many different interests at play over 3 fronts (Africa, Europe, Asia)
What about the civil war?
Which one? Afghan, Lybian, Syrian, Iraqi, Rwandan, Spanish?
UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
This guy is defending nazis and slavery
Worthess@discuss.online 10 months ago
Interesting…
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I mean, there are soldiers fighting for their countries’ safety today! They’re just not the ones thousands of kilometres away from home (they might be piloting drones on the other side of the world, I guess, lol), of course.