Yes but that's my point. If the penalty for protesting and the penalty for rioting are the same, protests become riots. This is a political statement which uses political language to describe a political problem. It violates that article of the UCMJ and they face the same charge whether they write this or something more radical. They use the political language of milquetoast liberalism, that they're values-based patriots who hold themselves accountable to the highest standards.

Sure that might attract the handful of troops who otherwise starved Yemen for a decade without a letter, who are ideologically committed to the same ideologies perpetuating this war and consume hours of that ideology's media per day. This alone establishes the myth of the Clean Wehrmacht using the same rhetoric for the updated version of the same genocide. To this point they've been entirely responsible for this war without a peep, and like Bernie Sanders there's some arbitrary number of dead kids where it suddenly sparks their moral conviction. If what comes after this letter is something which recognises the reality of war and confronting it, something at least in the vein of a venerated general already writing War is a Racket, then I will treat it as a more serious trend indicating a real threat to the war. With this they're inviting the same criminal charge they'd otherwise face spreading Bushnell-level rhetoric to write "Gee golly we just love America and our values so much we don't wanna do this" as they press the Do This button 12 hours a day.