Platner said he would have volunteered to go to Vietnam and would have participated in American colonial wars including the Indian wars and the Phillipines war. He loves small wars because the heavy artillery takes the fun out of fighting. And he thinks Iraq and Afghanistan were indeed small wars. Interestingly, he never mentioned enlisting for either of the world wars. The only time the Americans were not the bad guys. In his own words, "Small wars are pretty enjoyable."
He went back to killing more brown people as a private mercenary with a christofascist and white-supremacist group at the age of Thirty-fucking-four!
He also worked at the Abu Ghraib prison camp even after the torture and human rights violations against innocent civilians were exposed to the whole world.
The Nazi fucker tried to delete his comments but forgot to use reddit deleter to clean his comment history! ๐
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/5zKPq0Gtjj
He also wants to solve the declining recruitment rate in the US military and help increase the funding for naval shipbuilding to counter China.
yeah, what I can't believe is unacknowledged is that he's basically only excited about participating in wars against non-european powers in places subjected to colonial extraction. like he finds war fun and exciting-cool when it's against peoples under subjugation who aren't white. if its against white people with access to long range artillery and chemical weapons, then it's no fun at all.
like, and even IF we pretend like he's just an unthinking oaf who doesn't see the pattern, in what fucking hell dimension does anyone want to go back in time and participate in the "Indian" wars on the side of the US government?
His entire life has just been trying to play real life versions of cowboys vs indians so of course he would be delighted to get to join the cavalry and do the real thing.
Several years ago there was this meme of a black-and-white photo of a shirtless boxer with a mustache and minimal gear in an open, slightly underhand-fist stance, with the lore/trope of "amazingly badass".
He wasn't a great guy, but he wrote in letters that "frankly, I rather enjoyed the war [WW1]".