The U.S. military doesn’t fight for freedom and it’s why I write fiction

The U.S. military doesn’t fight for freedom. They carry out orders of mass murder, and yet the public “thanks them” for their “service.”

“The U.S. military does absolutely nothing to fight for the freedom of Americans.” – Larken Rose

That quote may sting. But think about it. The U.S. military has been involved in how many conflicts since 1898? In that time, what has happened to our freedoms? Across the board, civil liberties have tanked and mass surveillance has risen.

With a military deployed overseas across 750 bases, and one that fights forever wars, does that sound like a freedom-fighting force to you? If you live in America and if this were anyone else, the answer would be a hard “no.”

The U.S. military is really fighting for evil profiteering bureaucrats who get richer off the backs of your tax dollars. Worse yet, you’re conditioned from Day 1 in school to thank them. Supposedly for defending the country and protecting freedom.

Once again, is the brewing technocracy protecting freedom? Is obeying their commanders’ every whim, even if it means blowing up innocent civilians, protecting freedom? And is striking a country for no apparent reason protecting freedom?

After we’ve seen America intervene in other nations and fight numerous regime-change wars—none of which ended well—the answer is right in front of our faces.

I write books that allegorize the U.S. military’s evil actions

Regardless of which series you pick up, there’s a common theme: The superpower nations my main characters live in all intervene overseas and are massive technocratic states. Even if most of my work is fantasy, their sci-fi-turned-real-life aspect hits hard.

Some intervene on a large scale and they force my main characters to confront them. In one book, that superpower targets my protagonist because he boasts a special superpower that threatens it. So the empire unleashes a false-flag attack and marks him a terrorist.

In another, my main character sees through her nation’s quest for empire. She becomes part of a secret underground organization hellbent on stopping them and their foot soldiers. Only she’s caught and subjected to inhumane prison treatment. That sets the story in motion.

Another series has my main character living in a technocratic superpower. One whose military, like the U.S. military, completely bombards so-called threats. Also like the U.S., they don’t “win” these wars. They’re just deployed to serve and protect their political class’s interests.

Finally, in my dystopian survival series, my main character squares off against those who insist we thank the U.S. military for its “service.” Only that “service” comes from taxation at gunpoint while they go overseas, bomb poor civilians, and spark radical factions who we call terrorists. All in the so-called name of fighting for “freedom.”

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Larken Rose is right: the U.S. military doesn’t fight for freedom

Larken Rose posted a video called Soldiers Don’t Deserve Respect. He outlines several arguments for his take. I can sit here and write it, but you need to watch this video for yourself.

If the U.S. military is this benevolent force that fought for and spread freedom and democracy, then why is every country it’s intervened in this century worse off? Is Iraq a good place to live? Libya? Syria? Afghanistan? Or proxies like Ukraine and Yemen? Do you think Iran will be a democracy again? A democracy the U.S. itself ended?

The numbers of past American interventions don’t lie

Per the Heritage Foundation’s 2026 Index of Economic Freedom scores on property rights:

• Afghanistan: 3.6
• Iraq: 8.3
• Libya: 6.3
• Syria 4.0
• Ukraine: 21.6
• Yemen: 3.5

North Korea, whose government is the most fucked up on the planet, has a property rights score of 16.3. Let that sink in. North Korea has a higher property rights score than every country listed above except for Ukraine.

No, the U.S. military doesn’t fight for freedom. If it did, the countries it intervened in would look a hell of a lot different. Obviously, that’s not the case. But those countries have seen a lot of mass murder, courtesy of U.S. intervention.

A sickening truth every American must accept

I don’t care if this article offends you. You’re offended because I told you the truth and you can’t handle the truth. You’re also offended because Larken Rose told you the truth and you can’t handle the truth.

And you can’t handle the truth because you’ve let mouthpieces of propagandists like school teachers, parents, the media, and even celebrities and pro athletes lie to you for decades. Whether or not they were aware of that lie.

The current conflict is in Iran. And while its government sucks and it needs to go, stop making the mistake and thinking the U.S. military is going to liberate them. Donald Trump made it pretty clear that wasn’t the objective.

And stop getting pissed off because there’s evidence galore that everything you’ve been told to believe is an outright lie. Between 2001 and 2021, an estimated 364,000-plus civilians were killed in conflicts involving the U.S. military. That’s according to the Costs of War Project at Brown University.

This figure is part of a broader estimate that over 940,000 people died from direct war violence in these conflicts, including combatants and others. The same research estimates 3.6 to 3.8 million indirect deaths, bringing the total death toll, including civilians, to at least 4.5 million. 

Accept the fact that the U.S. military doesn’t fight for freedom

Look at those numbers again. Tell me that’s a freedom-fighting force. Justify it. Because any sane individual would look at those numbers and say, “No, this is a force of evil.” No matter what you want to think, those numbers don’t lie.

So join the resistance and the dissenters right now. One way that you can do this is to read and spread the word of fiction that challenges the status-quo. Fiction like mine that’s not afraid to be theme-first, isn’t afraid to offend, and isn’t afraid to tackle uncomfortable truths that most authors won’t dare to touch.

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Then spread the word to other freedom-loving people who understand what true liberty entails.