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Every settler-colonial in the Americas and other colonized continents venerates soldiers/cops like Platner because they get to delegate the violence involved in enforcing settler-colonialism:
What American wars would you have volunteered to fight in? 4 P-Hustle 1 point 12 hours ago [-1 The Indian Wars, the Phillipines, Haiti and Nicaragua in the 1920's, Vietnam, Nicaragua and El Salvador again in the 80's. As for would have, I "did" for Iraq and would love to get to the Ghan. Small wars are pretty enjoyable. It's the big ones, with days of artillery fire and inhuman brutality that take the fun out of fighting. But small wars (and Iraq and Afghanistan are indeed small wars) provide the rush of small combat actions along with the intellectual challenge of building personal relationships and infrastructure within the local community. Small wars are thinking wars, which I much prefer over the bloody slugfests of great power conventional warfare. Oh, and the revolution, because I'm Amuuurican.
October 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM