Comments by "Snack Plissken" (@snackplissken8192) on "Russia Begins Massive Anti-China Purge, Chinese Pro-russia Fans Left Bewildered" video.

  1. Soldiers/police in Russia acting like brigands with Chinese nationals is hardly unique to this situation. Soldiers engaging in brigandry is a European tradition that predates the Middle Ages, and is one of the reasons why to this day Europeans, particularly Eastern Europeans, tend to hate law enforcement. Even in the ancient world, armies usually plundered the peasants in any land they traveled through, friend or foe. America is only different because we became a country after the British concept of a professional civilian police forces had become the norm in much of Western Europe, so we basically never had underpaid military draftees acting as police while being forced to "live off the land." We also happened to be angry at the British army for commandeering private residences to billet soldiers when we wrote our constitution. Combine that with America only having an active draft during four wars, only fighting on American soil in one war, and having an all volunteer army the rest of the time and you can see why America overall has a historically abnormal love for their armed services.
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