https://original.antiwar.com/casey_carlisle/2024/06/04/the-speech-that-military-recruiters-dont-want-you-to-hear/
I had hoped to speak to high-schoolers – I still do – but the six high schools nearest me either ignored my offer to speak or declined it. “Do it for the - Casey Carlisle for Antiwar.com
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at this point I'm extremely suspicious of anybody who self identifies as "anti-war" because if you have the correct opinions that would be included under what the listener would consider opposition towar, you can just, like, say those opinions. "anti-war" claimers are always trying to shield their real opinions (Russia should get to occupy Ukraine to do at the minimum genocide-adjacent stuff, you should help Trump by throwing your vote away on the current zero support not even left wing third party candidate, etc) from criticism
There’s nothing adjacent about it. Russia is committing genocide. Since the start of the war, they’ve abducted 700,000 Ukrainian children and placed them in foster homes to be raised as Russians.
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-children-taken-ukraine/32527298.html
I totally agree with the rest of your point though. Anti-war calls are veiled isolationism. We have a responsibility to support our allies. Ukraine, Taiwan, and the Philippines are currently in need of our support, and can’t afford us backing away.