There is merit to the debate over whether we should be involved in a war with Iran.
That's a fair discussion with good points on each side.
Zach, on the other hand, has outright said that he wants war because it'll make him feel important, because he spends his time sitting at a base.
That is a position for which I hold absolutely zero respect.
Zach is an example of someone who understands humanity will never be without war, and that the US doesn't get to opt out of geopolitics, just because some Libertarian types want to stick their heads in the sand. However, he's also an example of why there is such a disconnect between military and civilian reasoning on many foreign policy vs domestic policy arguments.
It's a flaw of the military recruiting PR and indoc that it so drastically shifts the mindset of the person that few of them seem to understand the world from the civilian point of view anymore.
There is an argument to be had about war being inevitable, and then there is wanting to have an unnecessary ground war because the Army is still hurting for pride and experience compared to the Navy and Air Force.
And that 'Army first, other service second, US public third' mindset is a real problem with that branch, which is still upset the Air Force is a separate branch and get the good PR and job conditions compared to grunts and their assistants. Don't even mention the Navy or Marine PR around the Army either, it's their biggest sore spot.
However, the fact is the only reasons the conflicts are going as they are now is because the outside world has seen what happened to the US after Hillary's shitfit after 2016 essentially burned the social and economic house down to get at Trump, including the Wu Flu shit.
The illegit gov in DC that stole the 2020 election has rendered a lot of loyalty to the system as loyalty to a 'lesser evil' of internal corruption over foreign adversaries. We are a banana republic that exports Hollywood and Raytheon, but some still want to cling to the pride of the US military as a holdout while all but SCOTUS on the civie side is effectively FUBAR.
That doesn't change that the old blood feuds, old wounds, and poor decisions by people who drew the maps of the ME after WW1 or who broke agreements made after the Berlin Wall fell. So we have a duality of culture in the US now; we are a banana republic, but we are also still the least worst option globally, and the military is increasingly torn between worlds because they serve an illegit gov domestically, but our old enemies are still out there and are pushing to see how far they can go.
I also think Zach is betting on a war that requires direct US troops into a protracted fight, and that forces wartime conditions on the homefront in the unspoken reasoning that goes with that line of logic, to unite people regardless of the corruption in DC, and not caring who wins in 2024 in the US because not even Trump could change the course things are on if it reaches that point.
I think Zach would be better off just getting more open source intel bits to back up his arguments, and to stop pretending the civie political side doesn't matter, just because of the stupid illusion the DoD has of being non-political actors.
I'm personally mostly ok with war now because the CCP poacher fleets, fuckheads like the Ayatollah+friends, Kim's Nork feifdom, and Russian servile/mafiaoso mentality are combined the biggest threat to the Earth's biosphere with their environmental destruction and desire for old empires/glorious martyrdom, never mind US political insterests.
It may come a time we need to have it all out and deal with our enemies in a direct, kenetic fashion; but it needs to be on our terms as a nation and civilization, not because the US Army is jealous of the other service's PR.