• assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Israel’s army is apparently much closer to Russia’s than the US’. This is disgusting and pathetic.

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      10 months ago

      Israel itself is culturally very similar to Russia. Living in Russia, I’ve always been amused how their public picture is so different in everything.

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        10 months ago

        No one’s saying the US military are a bunch of faultless angels. But there’s a certain line of morality they are expected to keep, and conduct like that is illegal. They’re expected to disobey unlawful orders, and shit like this is unlawful.

        Shit goes on at army bases and you’ll hear about soldiers being shitty off and on base, but you never see the US military devolving into petty thugs like this in active combat.

        Typically we save that for the police back home. And I wish I were being sarcastic.