The complete cognitive dissonance it must take to defend the people that opress and murder the poorest and most defenseless people in the world.
Like, you must really only see westerners as people and no one else. That's the only real answer for it.
Youve spent the whole time defending the military and not once gave a shit out the innocent people they kill. Some dude flying halfway across the world to "protect our freedom" against the poorest people in the world.
You can't do this "both sides" crap. Because you can pretend you see people of Gaza or Yemen as people. But if all you do is spend your whole time saying "both sides" then all you're doing is siding with the status quo and the oppression done by American Imperialism and the allies it weaponizes.
My hatred for the US military comes directly from my humanization of the people that they opress and kill. So, yeah, when I see a dead Joe that decided to go join that organization of terror all I see is "one less soldier to kill the innocent". Because that's what all of them are used for. Directly or indirectly that is the result of being in the military.
And I will never show respect for them. I will continue to show disrespect when they die. Because all of the ones that are still alive should feel the same shame. They should be shamed to stop serving. Because serving in the US military is something to be shamed. In life and in death.
And your "respect" for them is only serving to keep others serving and killing innocent people.
Individual Monarchy's failing is not what I mean. I'm talking about the transition between a world ruled by monarchs under feudalism to a world rule by capitalist under capitalism.
That transition took centuries with many failed attempts to dissolve the Monarchy and replace it with forms of a democracy under different class structures and in many different parts of the world. The one that won out in the west was capitalism. But attempts to dissolve the existing class structures of the monarch failed countless times. And even ones that succeeded also eventually failed.
My point is. You are essentially a peasant in the 1500s saying "the kings is sanctioned by God to rule us! There is clearly no better system! Look at the Greeks! Those idiots tried a class based democracy and it failed! Monarchy has been the best system for centuries! My family was meant to toil the land for the king! The king is much greater than I!"
Capitalist economies have failed, fuedalist economies have failed, socialist economies have failed, that doesn't mean that this systems are not positive progressions from one another.
It is such a simplistic and naive understanding of history to expect capitalism to continue forever. Especially when it's systems inherently rely on an oppressive class hierarchy just as the others did.
And many of the brief experiments with socialism have been absolutely successful, beneficial, and most importantly BETTER than the systems that came before it.
Cuba under socialism is SIGNIFICANTLY better than it's sugar plantation slavery under its fascist dictatorship.
Russia under the USSR was significantly better for its people than under the Tsarist rule. It brought a feudalist peasant society to a state where it defeated the Nazis (most of which Europe failed to do).
To act like an economic system is inherently good or bad is naive. It can absolutely fail and have its problems. But capitalism has absolutely failed and has significantly more problems on our planet than it solves.