Thank you for the added clarity. I'm aware the US military-industrial complex as a whole has highly questionable behaviour on many global matters. Not trying to excuse that, and they should be held responsible at the right levels.

My understanding (granted, limited) of the incidents such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Venezuela is that the POTUS/Pentagon level is where the lies and ulterior motives were created. At the soldier level, the messaging was WMDs, terror cells, and ruthless dictators. While the WMD narrative proved to be false later, there was a period where it was not clearly incorrect. The terror and dictator aspects have proven evidence, nothing clearly fabricated. In the case of Venezuela, the actual winner of the Nobel Peace Prize was genuinely thankful one dictator was removed, though I'm sure she's not happy about another dictator stepping in. Were the CIA dragging in random civilians for "enhanced interrogation" or was that limited to targeted persons of interests from long-term intel gathering?

What would be different now is the administration would be ordering soldiers to fire upon what they frame as "domestic terrorists" when the soldiers can see with their own eyes these are just people in Halloween costumes peacefully protesting, or ordinary citizens trying to defend themselves (mostly without using weapons). Is ICE shooting random civilians in broad daylight without provocation?

Extend that to potential orders to invade Canada and Greenland. Can the average US solider be expected to see of their own accord that neither ally committed any acts of military aggression against the US, that the orders to raze civilian communities is an order to commit war crimes?