There are no winners in war - "Killing Troops"
Today, let's talk about the movie "Killing Squad".
The film title The Kill Team (2019), alias Kill Team.
Based on a true story, the film tells the story of the massacre of local civilians by American troops in Afghanistan through the perspective of a newly enlisted American soldier.
Andrew Brigman was just 21 years old and a freshly drafted recruit. His first mission out was to go to the Afghan theater, where he needed to follow the squad leader to perform various combat missions. While on a mission, Andrew Brigman discovers a lot of unusual things, and between morality and self-struggle, he has to make a choice.
Andrew Brigman is proud to serve his country as a soldier, and would love to travel to the war zone to feel at the forefront of the war. His family was proud of him joining the military, and passersby paid tribute to the recruit, all of which made Andrew Brigman feel extremely honored to join the army.
But in the war zone in Afghanistan, Andrew Brigman felt completely different. There was no enemy here to fight him directly. What awaited him was always the human bombs and the landmines buried from nowhere.
His first captain was blown up by a landmine and died right in front of Andrew Brigman's eyes, which made him see the cruelty of war. Although there is no positional warfare here, danger is still everywhere.
After the second captain of Andrew Brigman took office, he has been instilling in him that the war must be fought first, and his comrades have been "proving" to him with various examples. There is no difference between soldiers and civilians. There are We must take the initiative to attack every opportunity, until the enemy cannot fight back.
The death of Andrew Brigman's first captain touched him a lot, and it also made him full of fear of war. He also gradually accepted a set of theories of his teammates. No matter whether the enemy in front of him has weapons or not, it should be Take the initiative.
However, Andrew Brigman soon discovered that his squad always seemed to encounter attacking enemies. The local residents would always attack the squad with various weapons, and they could always be detected and preempted by the squad in advance.
At first, Andrew Brigman's teammates were still secretive about him. As time went by, his teammates also regarded Andrew Brigman as their own and no longer covered him up. Andrew Brigman found out that everything was deliberately done by his teammates.
His teammates "collected" various local-specific guns and ammunition, killed several civilians each time they performed a mission, and then placed weapons around the civilians to create the illusion of "attack".
It was a clear war crime, and Andrew Brigman was deeply entangled. Is it to report the crime of the squad to the superiors, or to accompany them with unconscionable conscience?
At first, Andrew Brigman was also a righteous lad, outraged to expose these crimes. But after the captain killed the chicken to warn the monkey and the low-key threats from his teammates, he gave in. As long as these teammates are willing, he can create his own accidental death, push the murderer to the local civilians, and kill a few more civilians to take credit.
Where will Andrew Brigman go. It's not that the client can never imagine the pressure he's under. When you stay out of the way, people may think that it's not a big deal, isn't it just whistleblowing.
You must know that the U.S. military has always had a tradition of protecting its shortcomings. It is very likely that they may not be able to wait for a just trial, or they may be killed. Andrew Brigman wanted justice, but he also wanted to live, so he couldn't risk his life in vain.
The film does not discuss the legality of the US invasion of Afghanistan, only the massacre of civilians by soldiers. In fact, Americans can stay well in their own country, and the world will not be chaotic at all.
The United States has turned a sovereign country upside down, and it has failed to deliver on any of its original promises. It does nothing but drag the two countries into a quagmire of war. After occupying other countries, the local residents are not allowed to resist. Thinking about it, it is simply robber logic.
Looking at the US military, how much difference can there be in killing innocent people and killing civilians indiscriminately in the local area and the massacre during World War II. At most, there is a fake scene for self-deception. In addition to deceiving the nationals of this country, this kind of forgery cannot stand scrutiny at all.
Will there be resistance without aggression?
American soldiers slaughtered civilians on the grounds that they were sheltering bombers. Please use your brains, the US military is the intruder who invades the sovereign country, the resistance fighters drive away the intruder, and the civilians help the resistance army, is it wrong? Just as the Japanese devils slaughtered the villagers covering the fighters when they captured the anti-Japanese fighters, the behavior of the US military is of the same nature.
Even though Andrew Brigman is also a hot-blooded young man, he is by no means a bloodthirsty young man. His courage to stand up and reveal the truth is admirable. After the incident was exposed, the U.S. military was once again disgraced.
But the U.S. military immediately showed their strength, and the end of the film took the results. The truth is that after the indiscriminate killing of civilians by the US military in Afghanistan came to light, 12 US soldiers were arrested. Prosecutors charged 22-year-old Corporal Jeremy Morlock and five others with intentional killing of three Afghan civilians, and charged seven others with conspiracy to cover up the crime. Turner, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Army, said a conviction for intentional homicide could result in a court sentence of death, but the Army would not ask a court to issue a death sentence. That is to say, Afghan civilians can be killed casually, as long as they want to. They only deal with a few parties, and there is no such thing as management responsibility.
Final Result Corporal Jeremy Morlock pleaded guilty to three counts of homicide, one count of conspiracy, one count of obstruction of justice and one count of unlawful drug use, and Judge Quasi Hawkes said he initially intended to sentence Morlock was sentenced to life in prison with parole, but Morlock was willing to take responsibility for his actions, pleaded guilty, and turned into a "tainted witness", so he was commuted and sentenced to 24 years in prison, with parole eligibility after about seven years. And Sergeant Calvin Gibbs, who has been demoted to private and all wages and other benefits forfeited, will serve his sentence in a military prison after being sentenced to life in prison. The protagonist of the film was sentenced to three years.
There is no winner in a war,
All of us are guilty.
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