I first saw this today after listening to the podcast. I am still somewhat suffering just from the utter horror of this video, so please bear in mind this is not something to watch casually. I still need to process how to respond, other than holy fuck, the US military is pure evil
The chatter makes me think of Vietnam vets and how, if they even acknowledge all the massive war crimes that were committed, they try and say that was just a few psychopathic bad apples. Nope, I bet a million dollars you see a boomer on the street with a Vietnam vet hat and if they saw combat, more likely than not they were JUST like the monsters in this video. Shooting farmers and casually and joking about it. That was the norm. US troops are just as bad as the SS, war criminals all of them.
good article (although written by NJR, a liberal) on how normalized, and even incentivized, murdering and raping civilians was: What We Did
what happened at My Lai was routine
Kill Anything That Moves will fuck you up. I couldn't finish it, shit was so horrific. The ROE pretty much gave the green light to kill anybody the troops came into contact with.