Ep. 155: Should dissidents and anti-war people h@te veterans?

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses whether servicemen ought to be hated since most recent wars are pointless, if not outright criminal, and leave western home countries both poorer and more insecure. Are veterans merely just doing a job and following orders? In the US since Vietnam it has been an all volunteer force. What should be done about these men (as well as woman) and how should dissidents treat them? For better or worse in the US there exists some amount of veteran worship especially amongst the so-called normie right. You could say in a healthy society which doesn’t engage in pointless wars this might be worthwhile; however, these conflicts tend to make the US/West both poorer and less secure. The destabilization of foreign countries is a huge contributing factor to migration to the West. The economic costs of the wars and maintaining this expensive gargantuan standing army means less money is spent on building out the home country. One of the few areas which gets huge taxpayer subsidies is the arms industry which Western Elites for obvious reasons don’t want to outsource. A dollar spent on missiles, F35s, and air craft carriers is a dollar which can’t be spent on flood relief, children, nice houses and consumer goods. How should libertarians, paleoconservatives and anarchists view the people who staff these organizations? Would a statement that your sacrifice was pointless and made the US worse off be a good response?