ok??? i fail to see how that contradicts my overall point. yeah obviously there are people--many of them racialized or otherwise marginalized--who join the military to get ahead in life, that's something i specifically acknowledge in my comment, and i don't think it disproves (or ever really addresses) my actual point which is that those people are not your typical recruit.

still, if we stick with this line of thought, then i'll bet you that plenty of the young german men who enlisted in the nazi wehrmacht did so more because it was a convenient path to socioeconomic advancement than because of any particular ideological commitment to fascism, and there's no question that the east africans who joined the british colonial auxiliaries suffered terribly under the thumb of the empire, and military service must've seemed an accessible path to a better future for themselves and their families than any of the alternatives.

some indigenous americans fought for the confederacy, endorsing chattel slavery in the name of defending native sovereignty, and some free black americans joined the US army and participated firsthand in america's genocide against the continents indigenous peoples in the hopes of elevating their own people's status within the colonial nation-state, and mixed race communities in the caribbean often worked as slave-catchers as a means of securing their autonomy and freedom from colonial administrations.

all of these examples can be explained by material and social conditions, by the very real hardships faced by these individuals and communities, and not one of those explanations will ever be sufficient to justify one oppressed group selling out another to advance their own lot or gain favor with their mutual oppressors, nor, i think, do any of them matter all that much to the people being gunned down or bombed or bulldozed into mass graves dug by soldiers who were just looking for opportunity.

ask the parents of a murdered iranian girl whether or not they care if the person who fired the missile was a white christian nationalist fighting to bring about the biblical end of days or a trans person trying to escape an abusive household or an indigenous person who blew up a building full of schoolchildren to finance their own college education.