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This might work for anybody who signed up for the military after Operation Epstein Fury started, but my guess is there aren't going to be many of those.
Most of the rest probably signed up while Biden was president, and thought at worst they'd be going to war to help keep the oil industry profitable.
Trump has been in power for over a year now, so at least a couple of ten thousand new people have signed up since then. And a couple ten thousand more renewed their contracts. Everyone in the US military is part of the war effort and nobody can claim innocence.
Most people who sign up as an enlisted soldier are dumb, desperate or both. Many probably believed the idea that Trump wasn't going to start any new wars. And, to be fair, maybe he wouldn't if the Epstein stuff hadn't been quite so devastating for him.
I don't think many signed up so that they could kill children to help distract from the Epstein stuff.