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thin the armed forces goes.</p><p id="7276">For them, it’s a bigger problem than recruitment, it’s a problem that could lead to mutiny in the future, if they don’t quell it right now.</p><p id="5aa4">His self-immolation, for them, represents a threat to the chain of command of the entire armed force and they, unlike civilians, won’t treat it as a lone incident. Instead for them this is code red.</p><p id="5d69">What’s going to happen, is akin to a purge of pro-palestinian supporters. It’s the only logical step for them to take, but the problem is can they take such a drastic step in the middle of a recruitment issue?</p><p id="9fe8">They’re most likely stuck in a dilemma.</p><p id="ccd2">They know, probably more than we do, that the military will be called up to arms soon, if the tensions in the Middle East and Ukraine aren’t resolved quickly.</p><p id="2c05">Especially in the Middle East, as Israel is very focused on being drawn into a war with Hezbollah, a war Netanyahu hopes he can drag the American military into.</p><p id="f667">But can the US be dragged into war with these two fatal issues? I think the political administration needs to have a long and hard thought of the repercussions of going in without being prepared.</p><p id="eba2">Then on-top of that military officials need to be very careful c

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onducting a witch hunt against their own forces. Some would see it as the right way to purge foreign supporters but some would see it as aggression against their own people.</p><p id="ee7a">Some sections of society and the armed forces would see it as hypocrisy. Because if they’re going against pro-palestinian supporters then they need to go against pro-israel supporters as well.</p><p id="3ea6">It’s probably right to say they’re fucked from all angles.</p><p id="a641">The military’s perception amongst younger generations and zoomers has gone down a lot and probably no amount of PR campaigns will instill confidence in even half of them.</p><p id="cf15">They’ve got a fucking genocide tag attached to them. That’s going to be hard to wash off, at least in this generation.</p><p id="cc9a">And this goes back to the politicians. They don’t know the damage their decisions does on their institutions and, the victims of the wars they wage isn’t just American society and the victims of the war, it’s also the credibility of the institution and when that takes a hit, it hits the morale of the American public.</p><p id="4259">If this episode has revealed one crucial aspect of the American Armed forces, it’s the fact that on all sides and angles, they’re fucked, another sign of a declining empire.</p></article></body>

American Military is going to start cracking down on Pro-Palestine Soldiers.

And this is in the middle of a recruitment crisis.

Photo by Diego González on Unsplash

It’s safe to say that Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation really just blew people wide awake. At a time when genocide was being to be normalised. He came and put a stop to it and said no.

In America he’s there’s mixed reactions towards him, but in the Middle East he’s been immortalized as Amriki Al Haroun, the American Aaron and the name Haroun has been given to him as a title after the prophet Haroun or in the Bible or Torah, as Aaron.

But for the American military it’s different.

For them his defiance against genocide represents a problem.

And the problem is that there is a section within the military, soldiers, which are obviously pro-palestinian and the issue with that is they don’t how far and wide this support base within the armed forces goes.

For them, it’s a bigger problem than recruitment, it’s a problem that could lead to mutiny in the future, if they don’t quell it right now.

His self-immolation, for them, represents a threat to the chain of command of the entire armed force and they, unlike civilians, won’t treat it as a lone incident. Instead for them this is code red.

What’s going to happen, is akin to a purge of pro-palestinian supporters. It’s the only logical step for them to take, but the problem is can they take such a drastic step in the middle of a recruitment issue?

They’re most likely stuck in a dilemma.

They know, probably more than we do, that the military will be called up to arms soon, if the tensions in the Middle East and Ukraine aren’t resolved quickly.

Especially in the Middle East, as Israel is very focused on being drawn into a war with Hezbollah, a war Netanyahu hopes he can drag the American military into.

But can the US be dragged into war with these two fatal issues? I think the political administration needs to have a long and hard thought of the repercussions of going in without being prepared.

Then on-top of that military officials need to be very careful conducting a witch hunt against their own forces. Some would see it as the right way to purge foreign supporters but some would see it as aggression against their own people.

Some sections of society and the armed forces would see it as hypocrisy. Because if they’re going against pro-palestinian supporters then they need to go against pro-israel supporters as well.

It’s probably right to say they’re fucked from all angles.

The military’s perception amongst younger generations and zoomers has gone down a lot and probably no amount of PR campaigns will instill confidence in even half of them.

They’ve got a fucking genocide tag attached to them. That’s going to be hard to wash off, at least in this generation.

And this goes back to the politicians. They don’t know the damage their decisions does on their institutions and, the victims of the wars they wage isn’t just American society and the victims of the war, it’s also the credibility of the institution and when that takes a hit, it hits the morale of the American public.

If this episode has revealed one crucial aspect of the American Armed forces, it’s the fact that on all sides and angles, they’re fucked, another sign of a declining empire.

Palestine
America
Armed Forces
War
Politics
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