New concept: Boycott the US military

Editor's note: We agree. Don't enlist and don't let your children enlist either. It is not worth it. Not when enlistees will be indoctrinated into woke ideology (see Architects of the Woke Military). The Russians and the Russian military are not woke. They aren't being kneecapped with intended transgender confusion as humanity is slammed into technocratic transhumanism. The Russian military can deliver a hypersonic missile with pinpoint accuracy and destroy between 20 and 30 D-30 155mm Howitzers worth $100 million in an instant. You can't enngineer, design and do the computational mathematics required to launch and navigate a hypersonic missile in a woke and DEI setting. The same thing goes for the French. Don't enlist. If French youth enlist and find themselves in Odessa they are going to get killed. And another thing that riles a lot of people about "retired" US military generals: Notice how these generals always bitch and moan in retirement about their opposition to political leaders they deem a threat? These generals deem Trump a threat because Trump might end this proxy war against Russia. That would in turn compromise any defense contractors these corporate generals work for after retirement. 

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Enlisting in the Military: A Very, Very Bad Idea

March 29, 2024 | By Fred Reed

If you are a young man wondering what to do with your life, you may consider enlisting in the military. Don't. Yes, the military has its appeal, or seems to. You may need a job. The uniform looks good. There can be adventure. You might get laid by Asian lovelies in foreign countries. These things have their appeal. They did for me as a young Marine. But they aren't worth being mutilated, blinded, or spending the rest of your years in a wheel chair. This can happen. It does happen. And Washington doesn't give a damn.

Recruiters won't tell you of this. They are liars. They lied to me. They will lie to you. At the very least, they will talk only about good things that might happen, about college money and job training you might get but probably won't. They will make you feel welcome. You are joining a team of brothers, they will say. You are a patriot. You are defending your country. 

Don't believe it. The US military does not defend America. The last time it did this was in 1945, at the end of World War Two. Since then, American soldiers were sent for twenty years to Afghanistan. Is Afghanistan America? No. Was it, is it, important to America? No. Then Iraq, Syria, Iraq again,and Serbia, bombing helpless cities. Iraq isn't America. In my day–I'm an old guy–it was Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, where 63,000 Americans died, and killed huge numbers of peasants who did nothing wrong–for no reason. Washington is now getting ready to start a war with China. China is on the other side of the world.

Let me tell you what the military does to young men, what Washington does. Long ago I was driving a truck near the Marine base in Danang, Vietnam. A bullet came through the windshield. The glass spatter went into my eyes, filling them with blood and blinding me for, as it turned out, several months. I lay for maybe an hour beside the road until a chopper finally came to take me to the Naval Support Activity hospital. For a couple of weeks a Viet nurse gave me a large injection of penicillin every few hours because if the blood got infected, that would be it for my vision. 

Across the corridor from me were two Marines whose tank had been hit by an RPG, rocket-propelled grenade. It ruptured the hydraulic lines and the hydraulic fluid had exploded into flames. The two crewmen across from me had gotten out somehow, though horribly burned. I was told they were covered with a plastic sheet that dripped with evaporation from their burns, but I don’t know. The other too had cooked alive, burning, burning, in agony, skin sloughing off, unable to breathe in the flames, desperately trying to find the hatch. The two across from me said they could hear them screaming. It is what the military did to them. It is what the military will do to you.

A recruiter might tell you that I am an old guy, and things have changed. No. They have not. The military still uses tanks, rifles, land mines, bombs, flamethrowers, artillery. Aircraft carriers, important for the upcoming war with China, still carry large quantities of jet fuel and explosives. They are barbecues waiting to be lighted. You can have your bowels blown out, or burn alive, as easily now as then.

Did Vietnam have anything to do with America? No. It's on the other side of the freaking world. Likewise Afghanistan, Ukraine, Syria, Iraq. So why does the military, why does our government do it?

Answer: So the arms industry can make money. And so Washington can try to control the world. Are you willing to die, to spend your life in a wheel chair, to wear a colostomy bag full of your own shit and never have a date because you were gut-shot–so Lockheed-Martin's stock shares will go up? Don’t do it. Don’t let the bastards use you.

The wars never stop because the money is sweet, the profits enormous. Washington just finished twenty years of killing in Afghanistan , meaning twenty years of juicy contracts. How did this defend America? Now we have Ukraine, so far costing taxpayers over a hundred billion dollars. Is Ukraine America? The United States is falling apart as anyone can see and Washington sends money to Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians, Russians and Ukrainians, have died there, for nothing. But of course most of that money going to Ukraine is used to buy weapons from the arms companies. Follow the dollar.

For Washington, for the arms industry–they are almost the same thing–long wars in distant places are desirable because companies like Lockheed-Martin and Raytheon can keep selling the Pentagon missiles, tanks, helicopters and simple things like gasoline at jacked-up prices. War is about money. Washington cares about money. It does not care about you.

Don't let them use you.

I'll tell you another story. I spent about a year on the eye ward, 4B, at Bethesda Naval Hospital as it was then called, just outside of Washington. In hospital wards you see what the military really does to people. There was a guy blind because a defective rifle grenade detonated on the end of his rifle. Another fellow had taken an AK round through the jaw, shattering the bone. The fragments had to be removed, leaving the flesh where his jaw had been hanging down in a formless blob like a wet sock. He ate through a nasogastric tube going through his nose. We called him Jawless.

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The Russians must be scared shitless:

U.S. ARMY – BE ALL THEY/THEM/THEIR CAN NOT BE

The US Navy is just as woke and stupid as any other branch of the armed forces:

The US Navy posted this picture, then deleted it. Let's look at the comments, shall we?

Important notice: If you were in the military or are retired and you agree with the above essay and reject what has happened to the US military, you need to contact your respective branch of the military service holding your records to notify them you are rescinding your DD 214 removing your corporate status.