I despise anyone who becomes a soldier of their own free will. The moment you enlist, you accept that you will be obliged to kill, and that you will have no control over whether that killing will be justified.

I wonder what would happen if we didn’t have a military at all

We wouldn’t see images like the Iranian girl’s rucksack smeared with blood.

Good point. But let me ask you this: Without a military or nuclear weapons, what is preventing other countries from taking advantage at the first chance they get? Criticize the U.S. all you want. But the country is full of valuable resources that other countries want. Take away the U.S.'s ability to defend themselves and the risk of foreign nations taking advantage will spike dramatically. Nukes are basically the ultimate “don’t even think about it” sign.

the U.S.'s ability to defend themselves If you have nukes and are the only sick fucks ever top use it why do you need to ‘defend’ yourself everywhere in the world unprovoked. get fucked with your BS. You’re parroting regime propaganda. Even they at least became less hypocritical in naming it the Dep of War, not defense. Maybe follow that lead if you want to be a little warcriminal imperialist bootlicker. Every fucking day there’s some fucker online that makes me despise that cancer country even more. Absolute scum of the earth