Most of the time people don’t want to hear that they were part of the problem regardless of your intentions and solutions, whether it’s out of pride, nationalism, or ideology.

You'd have a better chance of winning these people over if you actually told them the truth that they were manipulated and used for imperialism, rather than talking down to them like that.

It seems like communists were able to recruit the military because everyone was starving and suffering.

Or maybe those countries had a sense of pride and patriotism? Look at how much the Russian people loved their country in the USSR. Albania under Hoxha was very patriotic. Only when it's CHINA do people on this site approve of it. Western leftists have this weird hatred for everything that has to do with their own country and don't even want to think twice about the possibility of the everyman working class people having a sense of love for their country.

Fact is, a lot of people still have a sense of pride and love for America. By just telling them "fuck America", it isn't going to win them over. Most veterans who are disillusioned are very specific in how they talk about how much they love America and hate the government.