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Invictus Games
Hot take edgy bants aside is this rubbing anyone else up the wrong way?
The aim of the games is to ensure injured troops are not forgotten as Britain's involvement as the War in Afghanistan comes to an end
Conscription hasn't happened for a long time and UK/US involvement in these conflicts hasn't been clean cut has it. I'm sure the far reaching structural, social and psychological issues veterans face could be better addressed than through a paralympics of sort can't it?
And although Prince Harry seems genuine, was a soldier, etc it is a Prince basically promoting militarism - something he needs to protect his status and ultimately profit from.
It's paid for by governments and elites who put these folk there in the first place and it all just seems urgh, doesn't it?