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Yeah, for me seeing the drone chase the people around was peek comedy... until it hits and I was forced to see the aftermath and pain and recognizing that these men, despite everything else, are human. Even the ones fighting "by choice" are still making that choice through a lense of propaganda. They think they're doing the right thing.
War is fucking horrible. If it could effect the people benefiting from it like it effects these soldiers the world would be a better place.
You know what makes it even sadder? While propaganda does play a huge part of it, from all that we can gather information-wise, a vast majority is motivated by abject poverty and lack of perspectives in life instead of jingoist enthusiasm.
They have been beaten down and dehumanised by the system first, given a bleak and cynical outlook on life and themselves - and then basically been offered money for suicidal operations, most likely benefitting their relatives unless they manage to "win the lottery" and come back home alive.
There's a very real risk this will become the future of recruitment in Western nations as well, so we really should not turn off our empathy, even though I will never understand how they can charge forward into pants-shitting terror like this, instead of either surrendering or downright fragging their commanders in open mutiny.
Well said... Very well said.