there's another comment, responding to someone talking about Vietnamese casualties by saying "Yeah the Vietnamese lost millions. Including the elderly, the women and the children. All combat casualties right?", and the two responses to it are just "yes". Very cool and normal
Right wing armchairs understand the whole thing about how total war mobilizes the entire population to fight so therefore civilians are part of the war machine, but then just leave it at that and come to their own conclusions like "we should have just beat the shit out of them harder to demoralize them".
Of course, it doesn't occur to them that this can backfire. Unless they're the kind of military geniuses who think the terror tactics employed by the Wehrmacht in the Eastern Front or the Luftwaffe in the Blitz had no drawbacks whatsoever.
there's another comment, responding to someone talking about Vietnamese casualties by saying "Yeah the Vietnamese lost millions. Including the elderly, the women and the children. All combat casualties right?", and the two responses to it are just "yes". Very cool and normal
Right wing armchairs understand the whole thing about how total war mobilizes the entire population to fight so therefore civilians are part of the war machine, but then just leave it at that and come to their own conclusions like "we should have just beat the shit out of them harder to demoralize them".
Of course, it doesn't occur to them that this can backfire. Unless they're the kind of military geniuses who think the terror tactics employed by the Wehrmacht in the Eastern Front or the Luftwaffe in the Blitz had no drawbacks whatsoever.
It also got the answer: "I hope we bomb your country next"