In an era of climate anxiety, geopolitical tensions and rapidly advancing artificial intelligence, apocalyptic thinking is no longer confined to the fringes of society

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[+] totally_human_emdash_user@piefed.blahaj.zone -8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Sure, but were they speaking officially on behalf of the U.S. military, or were they just expressing their own (distressingly commonly held) view?

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[–] Francisco@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When are military personel not talking officially? ...have you seen Sen. Kelly prosecution by trump-hegseth-dptOfWar, they claim retired military personel do not have free speech, aka they are always bound to speak officially. So, I ask again, when are military personel not talking officially?

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[–] totally_human_emdash_user@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 21 hours ago

When are military personel not talking officially?

When they are sharing their own viewpoint and not the official viewpoint of the military as an organizational whole.

…have you seen Sen. Kelly prosecution by trump-hegseth-dptOfWar, they claim retired military personel do not have free speech, aka they are always bound to speak officially.

Actually, what they are trying to charge him for is sedition for encouraging troops to disobey orders, which is even worse (nonsense) than charging him merely for speaking unofficially.

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[–] SARGE@startrek.website 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Herr Colonel and dozens of other commanders did say ze war was to exterminate ze jews and dominate ze world, but maybe it's just zeir own personal feelings and surely not ze fuhrer's intent"

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[–] totally_human_emdash_user@piefed.blahaj.zone -2 points 1 day ago

I think it is much more likely that Trump enjoys the power trip that comes from bullying the weak than that he is specifically out to start a holy war, and at the end of the day the goal of the U.S. military is to do whatever he says, no matter what they personally think about it.

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[–] TerrabyteMarx@quokk.au 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Since when has the military ever officially and explicitly stated their actual intentions

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[–] totally_human_emdash_user@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

According to the person I was responding to, this is exactly what they are doing:

Doesn’t help that the US military are saying the recent war in Iran is to start a holy war and bring about the apocalypse.

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[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

https://newrepublic.com/post/207270/military-leaders-iran-war-donald-trump-jesus-armageddon

"By Monday evening, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, or MRFF, was “inundated” with complaints, receiving more than 110 grievances from U.S. military personnel stationed at dozens of sites across the Middle East, reported independent journalist Jonathan Larsen."

Definitely not the idea of just a few coocky officers.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/03/us-israel-iran-war-christian-rhetoric

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/troops-being-told-to-prepare-for-armageddon-in-iran_n_69a6ffe3e4b076ac5d63c82c

https://asiatimes.com/2026/03/us-troops-were-told-iran-war-is-for-armageddon-return-of-jesus/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-iran-armageddon-second-coming-complaint-b2931579.html

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-troops-told-iran-war-anointed-jesus-bring-armageddon-watchdog-says

https://www.commondreams.org/news/iran-armageddon-military

https://metro.co.uk/2026/03/04/us-soldiers-told-iran-conflict-gods-plan-trigger-armageddon-27220172/

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