Probably true, too bad a majority of US veterans voted for Trump in 2024.

Not that Harris would have necessarily been a president of peace anyway, but it’s still interesting to watch your veterans vote for the veteran hating warhawks.

But I’m not from the USA anyway, made this based on conversations in my country, where a majority of veterans are very very much pro war and are currently massively supporting an ongoing rearmament project.

Every. Single. One. I’ve met —and I used to be very active politically, often in tandem with Veterans for Peace.

While, at first glance, this may imply a certain bias, but my consecutive experience of that test pool’s scope and yet congruent views on war at every level surprised me. And, it’s not even just a “yea” to a vote, each one had nuanced influences behind their view.

To the point, that was during Desert Shield, and I’ve solo traveled the world for months at a time in the years between —yet, I’ve still not met (or even heard a friend mention) a pro-war vet in over 35 years.

/my2¢

That’s not true, I’m afraid. Anti-war vets have a tendency to stand out because they are anti-war and because they make for the most effective and threatening anti-war activists (threatening to the status quo, that is). People like Smedley Butler and Scott Camil come to mind.

But let’s not fool ourselves… they do not represent the majority of vets. I grew up in a place where war vets were a dime a dozen, and if any of them were anti-war they sure as hell never talked or acted like it.