The worst part is, the fog of war allows both sides to gaslight their civilian populations about what is exactly happening. Vietnam would have never lasted as l

The worst part is, the fog of war allows both sides to gaslight their civilian populations about what is exactly happening. Vietnam would have never lasted as long as it did with portable cameras and data networks like we have today. Just looking at the Ukraine conflict now, it's easy to see how shitty war actually is. You can watch videos right now of happy kids volunteering and then coming back as husks of a human being with dead eyes and stories that chill you. Or being shelled in a muddy trench on a drone camera. You can watch humanitarian convoys be shelled. People's homes being destroyed. The bodies of children, dismembered and splayed in the street. The corpses of men crushed under tank treads. They don't show this in the media, but it's there for us to see if we uncover our eyes. I used to love the idea of joining the air force and becoming a pilot. Now I just see the fragmented remains of "Collateral damage."