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If you're pro-war, you should head down to your nearest Army recruiting station and sign up for duty. Otherwise, you're not really pro-war. You're anti-war for yourself, but you want other people to kill people on your behalf. In other words, you're a coward.

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As an American, American soldiers are not fighting. The Ukrainians are not asking them to either. We are paying taxes, and those taxes are being used to send weapons to Ukraine. I'm pro-Ukraine as long as they collectively want to fight themselves - whether that means we send them advanced weapon systems or provide training and support for an insurgency.

This sounds nice, and I more or less agree, but has zero political rhetorical/ persuasive power.

Sticking to this line is basically resigning yourself to the status quo while claimimg yourself morally above it.

Just for one thing: geriatrics control most policymaking in America, and they won't be fighting anything.

Then replace "you" in my statement with "your son" and "someone else's son," and the same applies.

It's not just rhetoric. The underlying truth is that there have been wars in history that were worth fighting, and for which people did head to their nearest Army office and sign up to fight. And if a war doesn't reach that standard, then it begs the question why it's worth fighting at all.

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