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Veteran here. It's more like: "I'm a fucking idiot, but I could use some healthcare, and that college thing sounds nice."
Plan B was to kill myself, so I don't feel bad about enlisting - I got what I needed from it.
You'd be amazed how few people join because of cliches like patriotism. That said, it'd be way less fucked if people could get things like healthcare and education without needing to agree to blow themselves or others up.
Idk chief I think if I needed those things I'd organize my community to demand them first and not go into the "will I kill a bunch of innocent foreigners" lottery.
That's too much work, and an uphill battle that they'd rather wage against women, children and unarmed men. Murdering Arabs and Muslims and reinforcing the idea that they don't deserve college or healthcare for the crime of being born on the "wrong country" and only they do sounded a lot more attractive and more fun for this ghoul.
You can tell that they knew exactly what they were getting into, and even if they didn't, that would still not be an excuse.
Next, they and the other imperial loving devils will try to plead for you to "consider being nuanced".