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      16 hours ago

      If the army starts shooting its own soldiers, it’s not going to exist for very long. You can read very obscure stories about occasional killings during the Vietnam War, but those are almost always things that happened in the jungle when nobody would ever find out.

      If they try that kinda thing in Israel today, it’s not going to be a secret, and all of the other infantry and their family are going to wonder who is next, which in turn would massively reduce support for the Israeli military.

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        15 hours ago

        there was a story of an iraq war soldier killed by his own squad a couple years ago. thats what put the thought in my head

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      17 hours ago

      No he would sit in a jail cell. As a trained soldier no one would fuck with him

      Essentially a perfectly risk-free environment. But he chose murder instead