13th October 2019, 9:26 PM
The US Military is now officially a PMC, they're mercenaries. Trump bragged about accepting payment in return for troop deployment. Every person who joined up thinking they were defending some higher cause, or were only going to be used in some way that defends America, well, they have just been told in no uncertain words "You're a sell sword, a hired goon, you do violence so I can make money".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)