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Many people are very detached from the suffering of others

I'm sure many Japanese watching the Pearl Harbor movie didn't want the American pilots to survive after nuking 2 cities either.

Really struggling to make sense of this comment, is it just me?

The military propaganda in the US is so strong that it doesn't matter how many innocent lives US soldiers take, even the staunchest US liberals will thank the troops because "just following orders" or "poverty draft".

"Thank you for your service!"

The key difference (which I am sure you are aware of) is that the victims in your second scenario are foreign brown people. The comments would be very much like your first scenario if this was about Russians attacking even military targets in Ukraine for example.

American sentiment seems fine with killing invading Russians. I don't think it's a skin color thing that much.