Yes, they are in fact legionnaires. A term that, like the Marines, they are very proud of as a matter of tradition and history.They are in essence a second army. Are people in the French foreign legion not soldiers but “legionaries”?
Yes, they are in fact legionnaires. A term that, like the Marines, they are very proud of as a matter of tradition and history.They are in essence a second army. Are people in the French foreign legion not soldiers but “legionaries”?
Yes, that's a long way to say he was a leftist activist.WTF since when do westerners protest by suicide? Is this soldier mentally unstable?
He drank the cult cool aid after his tour and fell hard into the ideology. I can't even laugh or deride the poor bastard because he's a veteran with psychological problems.WTF since when do westerners protest by suicide? Is this soldier mentally unstable?
Soldiers are citizens of France by birth. Legionnaires earned their citizenship by blood and sacrifice. There is a major difference and a great source of the Legio's esprit de corps.Yes, they are in fact legionnaires. A term that, like the Marines, they are very proud of as a matter of tradition and history.
Again the issue with attempting to purge communists is they are often not being obvious woth what they do for a reas9n.Well, to paraphrase a famous saying, the best time to purge far-left lunatics from the military would have been twenty years ago; the next best time is now. Anarchism, Communism and anarcho-Communism are not religions (some argument can be made for them being destructive cults, but that's not the same thing save to fedora'd Redditors), in fact they are generally fanatically opposed to religions, and especially their postmodern incarnations fundamentally require the believer to despise America & desire to dismantle it; genuine believers in these ideologies can no more honestly swear an oath to defend the Constitution and the country, than a genuinely-believing Christian can honestly swear to love and serve the Eternal President of North Korea.
Thus they have no place in the US military (an institution whose official axiomatic purpose is to defend the continued existence of the USA and the Constitution it was founded upon), indeed no reason to join the ranks except to gain experience that they hope will make them more effective saboteurs for the Revolution down the line and/or access to military equipment & intel, and any whiff of people subscribing to such fundamentally anti-American far-left ideologies should be grounds for an exhaustive investigation. These people wouldn't even be useful as manpower for a meat grinder, someone willing to burn himself to death in peacetime for ideological reasons is definitely someone who won't hesitate to defect to a Communist power like China or people he thinks are the revolutionary good guys like Hamas at the first opportunity, if America ever finds itself in open hostilities with their ilk. Or, y'know, go full Bolshevik death squad on anyone they don't like in case of civil conflict or a full Red takeover, as I said before.
No doubt it'll take a long while to dig out all the parasites that have entrenched themselves within the military. The rot clearly stretches from top to bottom and bottom to top after all, as evidenced by dudes like this down below and the likes of Milley and that woke USAF general Biden wants to replace him with up top. But in that regard, the American people have lucked out in that these people are pulling their masks off (and their faces with it in some cases, like Bushnell here) now, in a time when the US is not directly fighting any significant wars abroad for the first time in more than 20 years. You still have time to start cleaning house and, if not eliminate these guys (when they aren't helpfully exposing & eliminating themselves of course), then at least diminish their presence before they can really start compromising the military at a time when you really can't afford it. I don't remotely believe that Bushnell would have limited his self-destructive tendencies to killing just himself if America were at war with, say, the PRC for example.
Yes the foreign legion are legionaries but they are also soldiers. Not all French soldiers are legionaries but all French foreign legionaries are soldiers.Yes, they are in fact legionnaires. A term that, like the Marines, they are very proud of as a matter of tradition and history.
They are not soldiers.Yes the foreign legion are legionaries but they are also soldiers. Not all French soldiers are legionaries but all French foreign legionaries are soldiers.
They are not soldiers.
They do not consider themselves soldiers.
Just like marines do jot consider themselves soldiers.
Army soldiers don't consider themselves Marines.
It's about pride.
There were several who did this during the Vietnam war in protest of it. One did it in front of his one year old daughter.WTF since when do westerners protest by suicide? Is this soldier mentally unstable?
You think we’ll be lucky enough that our politicians will act like the Japanese politicians when they fuck up?There were several who did this during the Vietnam war in protest of it. One did it in front of his one year old daughter.
Still self-immolation doesn't spell good for the US. When it happened in Vietnam it was a sign that things were getting much worse or barely holding on.
Nope. That's a Jain Buddhist thing.It only takes self immolation to get Middle Easterners to praise Military Veterans.
It only takes self immolation to get Middle Easterners to praise Military Veterans.
Still self-immolation doesn't spell good for the US. When it happened in Vietnam it was a sign that things were getting much worse or barely holding on.
public schools and CNN ?A trannie commit suicide in PROTEST of israel-hamas war (taking the side of hamas) is just so freaking bizzare. what is wrong with those people's brains
A trannie commit suicide in PROTEST of israel-hamas war (taking the side of hamas) is just so freaking bizzare. what is wrong with those people's brains