• Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    I see no reason to fight fair, why put our troops at unnecessary risk?

    I also can’t think of a reason why we wouldn’t capture their unarmed ship, or at least give them ample opportunity and “incentive” to surrender. Honestly, the greatest show of strength is the ability to show compassion and humanity to your enemy. Think of how much power it would project to capture a whole warship, hold the crew as PoWs, treat them well, and return them well fed and cared for?

    Instead, we blew them up and left the survivors stranded in the ocean for other nations to assist.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caOP
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      9 hours ago

      One way to not put your troops at unnecessary risk would be not to start unnecessary wars.

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        8 hours ago

        Yeah, that too, but we’re talking about the US… Unnecessary war is like the trademark move of the republican party.

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      8 hours ago

      the ability to show compassion and humanity to your enemy. Think of how much power it would project to capture a whole warship, hold the crew as PoWs, treat them well, and return them well fed and cared for?

      Woke. being woke is why the US keeps losing, so stop being woke and start winning

      I shit you not, this is how these morons actually think.

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      9 hours ago

      During WW2, many Italian and German POWs were sent to America for internment, and treatment, if they were wounded. I have met a three separate couples where the POW fell in love with his nurse, and after he was sent home after the war, he came right back and married his American nurse.

      Behaving compassionately toward your enemy is the best thing an Army can do to quell post-war problems. MAGA is too Sociopathic to understand that concept. They feel that the only strategy is to crush the enemy, then subjugate them mercilessly, because they are inherently cruel, and that’s their idea of fun. They don’t consider the danger in creating another generation of motivated terrorists.

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        9 hours ago

        My grandma cooks a very authentic red sauce, allegedly, my great grandfather was in charge of some POWs stateside in WWII, and one of them was a chef before the war, so he had that guy come over and teach my great grandma how to cook a red sauce, and the recipe has literally been passed down for generations at this point.

        Before you ask… I have not been granted the recipe yet.