In 1982, a classic action film " First Blood " was released in the United States. The protagonist of the story is Rambo played by the representative of the famous tough guy - a veteran who returned to China from the brutal Vietnam battlefield. .
in his home town, he seemed out of tune with other people and was bullied in various ways. After angrily attacking the police, he faced a large number of police and National Guard to chase and kill him frequently, until finally he was persuaded by the officer. down and surrender.
The core of this film is of course not those passionate and bloody action scenes, but the reflection of ordinary soldiers at a loss under the trauma of war, which is also a typical feature of America .
movie or real?
On September 4, 2021, in Florida, the United States, a Marine Corps sniper who returned from the war in Afghanistan launched a killing spree in the community.
confronted civilians he did not know, and he shot directly and brazenly. After the police arrived at the scene, he resisted with firearms and hand-to-hand combat.
By the time he was finally subdued, he had brutally killed a middle-aged man, a middle-aged woman, an elderly woman, and even a 3-year-old baby, and an 11-year-old girl was shot after Was rescued back, survived.
How terrifying, in a peaceful town in his own country, the residents were ruthlessly massacred by soldiers from his own side. After the incident, the murderer proved to have severe war trauma. Under the title of superpower and world hegemony , how many innocent soldiers have lost their lives? What does the spiritual world of American soldiers look like?
The Vietnam War is a scar that the United States is difficult to heal. This war with a huge disparity in strength and the United States invested a huge amount of money in the end ended in their defeat. The United States, which has been invincible since the end of World War II , suffered the most painful time here. fight back.
The United States made a fortune by relying on war, and quickly jumped to the highest throne in the world. This kind of starting point made them accustomed to making money from war from the beginning, but war does not happen every day, peace is the mainstream, so the United States is for its own personal interests, "had" to take the initiative to provoke war.
went through a secret game between China and the Soviet Union in the early stage. After US President Johnson officially approved the " Rolling Thunder Operation " in 1965, the United States directly participated in the Vietnam battlefield.
In this tug-of-war that has lasted for more than 20 years, China and the Soviet Union and other international communist allies have indeed provided a lot of support, but they have never directly sent troops to intervene like the United States, so on the battlefield, there is plenty of firepower. , The enemy facing the well-equipped American soldiers is only the Vietnamese people in rags to fight guerrillas in the ravines.
This small country was very inconspicuous in Southeast Asia at that time, and it was extremely poor. When it was pulled out to fight with the world's largest power, the most important thing seemed not to win or lose, but how long it would take the United States to win. This is what most people think, and also America's own ideas.
Then this war was fought from 1955 to 1975. It served five consecutive U.S. presidents. The U.S. military invested more than 600,000 troops in a total attack, the death rate exceeded one tenth, and the military expenditure reached more than 250 billion US dollars. , but still failed to win.
It is conceivable that those soldiers who were forced to go to the battlefield by the country, who fought for many years in the humid and difficult environment of Vietnam, could not go home, and were also faced with the sudden attack of the Vietnamese who were elusive at any time. Their spirits go through terrible torment all the time.
Not only that, the U.S. government has always been unethical in the war, and it has long been a consensus that it has taken armed actions against civilians in other countries and even burned, killed and looted.
These soldiers are wandering in death and violence all day long. They have completely separated from the human society and become as cruel as beasts. Their first task is to kill people.
In the subsequent Qirak war and the Afghanistan war, this situation is still repeated.
Leb Riley is an ordinary American citizen who responded to the call of the country when he was young and strongWhen he joined the army, he was fooled into the battlefield in Afghanistan.
His physical quality is better than that of ordinary soldiers, so he was selected to serve in the very famous Marine Corps of the US military. With his amazing eyesight and marksmanship, he became a sniper.
The war in Afghanistan is almost a replica of the Vietnam War to a certain extent. After the United States made some petty profits in the Middle East, they were retaliated by their actions. Dignity pressed against the ground and rubbed.
But because "9.11" was a terrorist attack after all, so President Bush 's idea of going to war was quickly supported by almost all citizens, as if they were trying to protect their own country, and because of this, many passionate American youths Actively join the army to Afghanistan .
Only these people who have been on the real battlefield understand that this is not a palace of faith to serve the country, but a real hell on earth, killing fields, explosions, shootings, attacks, and car bombs are full of their daily lives.
and Riley are even more special, because snipers themselves are a special job, they are responsible for killing the enemy with precision, and a bullet often takes a life.
In 2014, the United States also had a movie " American Sniper ", adapted from the real experience of a famous sniper Chris Kyle , describing a sniper who killed more than 160 enemies on the Iraqi battlefield After returning home, the sniper was completely unable to integrate into the family, and eventually collapsed and was shot to death.
Yes, snipers tend not to rush to the front line like ordinary soldiers, but they are more deadly. Often a famous sniper has many lives on his back.
Unfortunately, Riley is such an "excellent" sniper, his performance on the battlefield in Afghanistan is commendable, but as he gets stuck in the quagmire of the war for a long time, the originally upright Riley begins to be unable to bear the huge mental stress.
When the new president Biden came to power, he obviously planned to end this laborious and protracted war, and Riley also ended his service and returned to China.
But can he really go back?
The US military's welfare treatment for soldiers has always been good, and Riley also has a beautiful girlfriend waiting for him at home, but for him, there is no happiness, because he has problems with his spirit.
In a peaceful environment, Riley's mind is still full of the roar of guns, the screams of soldiers, broken limbs... This situation is generally called post-combat traumatic stress syndrome, and the patient will be in a long-term Tension, anxiety, fear, severe hallucinations, suffering from depression.
Obviously the war is over, but he is still trapped in that world. You can imagine how painful such a thing is. Riley has serious war wounds. After he retired, he worked as a security guard in a church. He chose to use drugs to release his emotions, and after becoming addicted to drugs, he began to get drugs.
That's it, until one day on September 4th, 2021, Riley, who had just finished taking drugs, walked out of the house. He was driving on the community streets of the town in a daze, and then met his neighbor - in his forties. Greenson.
Since it was Saturday, Greenson decided to clean his garden when he had nothing to do. Suddenly, neighbor Riley parked his car in front of his house and broke in. Greenson entertained him as usual, but didn't want Riley to go crazy today, saying he was God's representative and asking to meet with Greenson's daughter.
Greenson sent him away after a few words, but the more he thought about it, the more wrong he became, so he called the police and expressed his suspicions: Riley might be on drugs.
But the police didn't want to pursue the matter since Riley didn't do anything.
But just a few hours later at night, Riley visited the Greensons again, but this time, completely insane and armed with guns, he shot and killed the Greensons and the Greensons without saying a word. mothers, their daughters, and evenA 3-month-old baby in the family was killed, and not even the garden dog was spared.
The shooting in the middle of the night immediately woke up this peaceful town. The police rushed to the scene, but Riley actually started to confront the police. The two sides started a fierce gun battle. Leigh continues to try to grab the police's guns by hand-to-hand combat so that he can be subdued.
And the Greenson family had already fallen in a pool of blood, except for their 11-year-old daughter who escaped and survived after being taken to the hospital for rescue. It was smashed to the ground, blood splattered on the walls, and bullet marks were everywhere.
After the incident, Riley's girlfriend told the public that Riley has always been a mild-mannered person, and he has never had any mental problems before, but he does have war-traumatic sequelae, and his brain confusion is near. Started appearing within a week.
Is Riley cruel? Of course cruel, he killed an entire family.
Is Riley wrong? Of course it is, the proof is overwhelming.
But is Riley really guilty? In fact, he did not. It can be imagined that he used to be a kind and upright person, but the war has taken his soul.
In the US military, the situation like Riley is actually very common. When it comes to the situation of this group of people, the reason is not complicated.
First of all, the United States has always played a loud name before the war. Although it is for wealth, resources, and interests, it will be packaged as "democracy", "freedom" and "liberation" in front of the people and soldiers.
So most of the soldiers joined the army with patriotic enthusiasm at the beginning, but when the war was halfway through, they realized that this was an unjust and inhuman war of aggression, and they were cast aside, but at this time their The value has long been used up by the government.
If they return to China, they will be insulted and abused, but they wanted to be heroes before they set off, and they are not willing to do such shameless things. This huge gap can easily make people collapse.
Secondly, whether it is the massacre of Iraqi civilians by the US military as reflected in the Turkey movie " Iraqi Wolf Valley ", or the March 11 incident in which the US military shot and killed Afghan civilians on March 11, 2012, it is completely sufficient. It proves that the US government has a deep habit of killing civilians.
This kind of behavior is extremely immoral no matter what country it is in, so the soldiers who are responsible for execution will inevitably have a nightmare that may never be forgotten for a lifetime.
Also, according to a consistent US Army report, nearly a third of the soldiers in their military are addicted to restrictive drug addiction, many of them because of disability, loneliness, and stress drug addiction.
On the battlefield, it doesn't matter, and it can even make people more frantic to kill the enemy, but after returning to their home countries, many of them can't find jobs or integrate into society, and they become a large number of "terrorists".
In fact, some people may wonder. Decades ago, China also experienced a long period of war. Why is this phenomenon so rare among the surviving veterans? Are the Chinese people more courageous?
This involves one of the most critical issues - the cause of the war.
Whether it was the Northern Expedition, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the War of Liberation, or the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, or for the freedom and liberation of the people within the country, or to fight against the brutal aggressors, they have never taken the initiative to invade other countries and regions, whether it is those blood-stained yellow Sand still kills soldiers and soldiers who are heroic and kill the enemy. They sacrifice their lives or kill people, always just to fight and fight for peace.
This is a just war that will not make the hearts of warriors heavy, broken and fragile, but will make them stronger and braver.
After repeated tragic failures, they still failed to make the interests of the U.S. government come first imposed on ordinary citizens. A vicious cycle like
has led to a constantIn the weakening, in the long run, it will eventually lead to complete collapse.
