Comments by "Viktor\x27 vonthe Rhaefnhyrst, I" (@Viktor_vonthe_Rhaefnhyrst) on "HistoryAtWar" channel.

Anyone who's seen what an army of Godless Soviet conscripts can do to a Slavic city and its populace...let alone a Polish, Baltic, or German one, knows EXACTLY why the Germans would keep fighting. What warrior would lay down his sword when the women and children of his countrymen were beset by murderous rapists? No warrior would and no warrior should.
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@bikerz3857 "Brainwashed"? Maybe but, the fact of the matter is that men with something to believe in and die for are arguably more motivated and willing to endure hellish conditions then, if I might assume, staunch individualist skeptics like yourself. What hill are you willing to die on beyond your own immediate self-interest and belief? I'd wager there isn't one but, men like US Marines and 3rd Reich SS Sturmtruppen had those deeply ingrained convictions and it enabled them to do unthinkable things, for better or worse, that a rabble assortment of individualist skeptics all pulling their own way and failing to follow directions could never hope to achieve. They were united by a common, unwavering faith in their collective and in their mass purpose. A military, in particular shocktroops who face terrible odds and the knowledge they'll have to die for tactical objectives, requires discipline, selflessness, fanatical dauntlessness, and unquestioning obedience or it all falls apart. Some men can certainly compartmentalize their duties and their own thoughts but, this is a talent of a privileged, intellectual few. For the most part, man is a social animal dependent on the groupthink to gauge and refine his own thoughts and actions and that's just how it is; military branches like the USMC and Waffen-SS recognize this and regiment and program the men who CHOSE to join them accordingly. It is what it is but, if I were in the thick of battle had had to chose between a pair of men, one SS and one Marine, to cover my ass and fight with me OR you and your enlightened best friend, I'd choose them over you two in a heartbeat. Self-stylized midwits like yourself get people killed and know neither the value of loyalty nor camaraderie because you believe in nothing but yourselves, lest you "get caught up in a cult or brainwashed". That dubiousness robs you of your capacity to throw everything behind something and you can't hold back in war.
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@hennagaijin100 My last boss was a Marine who served in Vietnam and, while he admitted that some Marines were indeed conscripted, most VOLUNTEERED and that guys like you were the butt of every joke and the bane of every hope. In Vietnam, the USMC had higher standards for who they entrusted to watch their asses than any military body today, save perhaps the French Foreign Legion and elite special forces. They may've drafted men but, they did so in far lower quantities than the Army because the army can afford to have bloated retards sent forth as cannon-fodder but the Marines demand esprit de corps and fanatical, forward momentum to accomplish their objectives. I'm almost tempted to call you a post-hoc rationalizing coward.
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