I can only speak to the US perspective on this but over here there's this obnoxious and everpresent culture of lionization around former/current military personnel and some of the western left's fixation has to be a reaction to it. A Pair of "hometown heroes" banners like the ones found on the main streets of small towns. One of them features a picture of a man in a USMC uniform and its an awful shot that makes him look kinda evil

I mean like, every small town has a street lined with banners similar to those in pic related and its like... Theres some guys who lived here who took a job with the government? And how much money did this town get scammed out of to do this? Between that and the "stand for the flag, kneel for the cross" shit that's everywhere I'm sick of it.

[–] MohammedTheCommunistPalestinian@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

we have something similar except its for real heroes and there's no equivalent to kneeling to a cross