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re: Could almost anyone born after 1940 fight in WWI
Posted on 12/5/17 at 8:06 pm to windshieldman
Posted on 12/5/17 at 8:06 pm to windshieldman
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I agree back then it was brutal but at least you knew your enemy.
Who? People who fought for the Kaiser? Some bullshite going down in the Balkans? Why did anyone who was British give a shite about that? I think to people born after this, the answer would be clear on who they should be fighting against, and it is the ruling class. The Russians directly acted on those ideas and thus the Soviet Union was born.
At least these days they know these thugs would want to kill them and their whole family if they had their way. They saw their German enemies across the trenches and identified with their direct situation. That's not good in war and makes your soldier much less likely to shoot someone in a moment of pity. They knew the only reason they were firing upon them is because their superior officer told them to do so.
Posted on 12/5/17 at 8:10 pm to OMLandshark
Yea I understand. I’m saying compared to Iraq and Afghanistan it is different. Nowadays regular “civilians” walk by and blow themselves up. People are sniping at you with kids in front of them. A person disguised as a woman asking for help blows themselves up and takes out a lot of soldiers. Yet many guys still stayed and fought here. To me, our soldiers, even “millennial” one’s are just as good as back then
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