As a veteran, I wish people would stop glorifying the military. It's the Imperial armament. It defends the borders of OUR Empire, which may be collapsing but is still mighty and deadly, to anyone presumptuous enough to test it.
But our oceanic moats PROTECT our borders as well as or better. Any foreseeable invasion threat would have to either cross a vast ocean or come through inhabited regions which would resist them, along with any USer response deemed appropriate.
The USofA has only, truly, ever been militarily threatened twice since 1776: 1812, and 1861-65, despite the hundreds of conflicts "we" have engaged in. Neither the Axis in WW 1, nor the fascists of WW 2 posed any actual threat to the borders or the or the political integrity of the country.
Indeed. And one of my most sucky epiphanies was the day I woke up to the fact that I was not a valiant soldier fighting for truth and justice but rather just another soldier for the Empire. I suspect you had that one, too. I've talked with lots of veterans who told me the same thing.
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