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> "US military is a deeply evil institution"

How so? I'm curious about what you classify as "evil."

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Their actions maybe?

Care to elaborate please?

I mean specifics, for example most people agree that waterboarding, torture, etc. are "evil," but what about things like PsyOps? I want to know what actions the commenter thinks are evil versus what actions are legitimate.

Countless, endless warfare. Un-counted victims, streaming across the landscape, being hidden from the American public by its military-industrial masters.

Americans are, still today, very very ignorant of what their sovereign nation state is up to, in their name. American responsibility for American war power is at an all-time low: this is the only reason America is able to get away with such heinous crimes as the complete and utter destruction of Mosul, Raqqa, etc. by the so-called "Coalition", a super-legal entity formed by the American military-industrial complex in order to commence world war three.

(If you don't think WW3 is currently being fought, having been started by the West, then I urge you to get up right now and start looking. Because, folks, the West are the bad guys this time around. We've been the aggressors in this war for decades now, and its only going to come home to roost sooner or later. Get up, and make yourself aware of just how much destruction the Coalition is causing around the globe. This is going to come back to us.)

> "...military-industrial masters"

Who are these "masters" if you had to elaborate? CEOs of Raytheon/Halliburton/General Dynamics/Lockhead Martin/etc?

Yup. Look behind the smoke and the mirrors of America's corrupt political donor system, and you see the real power. Of course, thats not easy - these people don't want to be known. But, it has to be done if you want to understand just why America is in a state of perpetual war.

> I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

Smedley Butler, United States Marine Corps major general

Off the top of my head;

Syphilis tests on homeless and mentally disturbed black men.

Subjecting mentally disturbed people to experiments with LSD.

Overthrowing democratically elected governments to protect their own economic interests.

Operation Paperclip.

The lies leading to the Iraq war.

Operation Northwoods and various other false flag operations.

Iran-Contra.

The My Lai massacre.

The drone strike program where 4000+ civilian casualties is an acceptable collateral damage for an estimated ~100 militants killed.

Chemical warfare in Korea and Vietnam.

I'm could find a shit load more with some in-depth research but I'm at work.

And how many of those actions, aside from My Lai, were initiated by rank-and-file enlisted men or low-level officers?

Because those men and women make up the bulk of the so-called "evil" US Military.

"I was just following orders" has not been a credible defence since the Nuremberg trials.

The question still stands.

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