Warfare & Tactics

Thread too long.... PERUNGA's smacktalk is a reflection on him and not much else.

Perunga is a dickhead and always has been. Nothing new here.

What you just said is highly offensive to many people. You're obviously entitled to your own opinion but you should really think twice before posting something on a video game forum. Especially since you fail to take into account the vast majority of soldiers whose jobs are not combat related. As an example, my current MOS is Civil Affairs Specialist and our priority is to help people, not hurt them.

If you for some reason feel the need to speak up in a public forum again I urge you to actually research the topic instead of spreading your baseless and unfounded "ideas". Maybe then you won't look like a complete idiot.

Whilst I agree with you that western military has been misused for the benefit of corporate elites, there is alot of emotion on this topic, political standpoints, lost friends/family, patriotism etc, so I suggest you put your opinion forward in a less disrespectful way or just stfu.

T H E R A B O I S now claim SOV in this thread

This is highly off any topic and quite indulgent. But thats never stopped me before. As soon as you start telling people to not express their opinion because it upsets you, specially when they make a valid point, you really should introspect.

On this topic in particular, you become a useful idiot shielding the corrupt from criticism. At least the people in the military get paid to drop bombs on men women and children, their families just propagate an environment where its harder to criticize those actions.

If you have lost a loved one, either accept that they died doing what they wanted and be proud of their dubious job, or perhaps the more prudent course of action would have been to steer their lives away from being a gun for hire in the first place.

Either way, realize that it is far from productive to get upset at people who voice objections at the actions of the government as though they are blaming the troops.

I know sovereign nations need force to maintain independence. But if its going to be used aggressively it would be better, instead of all the lies, if they said something like 'were going to iraq and afghanistan to murder people and take their resources in the name of my rich associates. At least that would be honest.

One can have opinions about the political aspects of the recent middle east wars. And there are so many of them and so many sides. But the important thing is to remember that those opinions should be directed at the policies and the policy makers and not at the average soldier (most of whom were looking for help going to school or whatever and/or helping their country, and not involved in killing civilians). I may agree with some of the sentiments and viewpoints about the political and economic aspects of those wars expressed here. But to throw a blanket label at any country's individual soldiers is a mistake.

In this regard Perunga proved himself wanting, and sadly other posters itt as well.

RL politics should be kept out of this game. It only leads to conflict within your own in-game groupings for one thing. Perunga was called out and shamed for doing so across an in-game conflict. This thread will probably receive a much welcome lock soon. But it will be worth remembering.

As admirable as it is to want to serve your country for the better there needs to be a clear distinction between the importance of "the talk" and "the walk".

If someone calls you a poopy-head you probably wouldn't take it so seriously, despite the fact that it is probably untrue and "disrespectful" (whatever disrespectful actually means, the way I see it the meaning varies from person to person).

On the other hand it very well is true that a lot of military soldiers and leaders actually are just cowards; willingness to murder other humans doesn't automatically make you brave. Yet a true statement like this is met with far more retaliation than a dumber, more incoherent statement would be.

It's that thing where people take themselves and their ideas far too seriously because of brain-washing and national indoctrination.

I believe a person should be able to say anything they want without repercussion and that includes calling people faggots or just being a total bigot in general. Maybe I'm wrong or naive. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.

This is a perfect example of why psych exams need to be improved. We really should only let psychopaths go to the front line as they are the ones we can rely on not being further damaged.

Incidentally, a lot of the militants in various middle east war zones are suffering in the same way.

As for Kyle, he wrote a book and made it very clear what kind of person he was. You dont rack up such a massive kill count by being discriminate. Though, there is a great deal of evidence that he is also a compulsive liar. Like his claims to have killed 30 US citizens in the looting after katrina. I think we can all safely say that is bullshit, so im prone to think the rest of his claims are too.

Some people are just like that. They start telling tall stories when they are kids and never grow out of it.

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