I live in America and I hope when my country wages war against yours, “we” lose. I really respect and appreciate your perspective of being entirely against the American military because I am too. I remember how the troops and their supporters treated me and my family because we looked like the people they’d been told were the enemy, and I don’t even want to stop hating them for that. Nor can I want to stop hating them for what they did to Iraq and Afghanistan. The dead don’t get another shot at life. The dead don’t get to be happy. The traumatized will carry their wounds the rest of their lives. So why should their killers?

It is frankly refreshing and validating to see someone else harboring that fiery stance because it’s so painfully rare here and I feel alone with it.

When I see local comrades – usually white – make carveouts for American soldiers, I feel like I trust them less and it’s a struggle because I want to not have that trust take a hit. But, ask them if they’d apply that standard to Nazi soldiers, and they will not or cannot really engage.

I don’t know how they can really care about the victims of fascism and excuse fascism’s footsoldiers.