Yep and even contemporaneously, opposition to the war in Vietnam in the US (that wasn't explicitly communist at least) centered entirely on basically "draft bad" and rarely talked about the Vietnamese experience. Hell, the most popular protest song (Fortunate Son) basically just complains that the working class was being sent there but not the kids of rich folks. While true, it still completely ignores the horrific war crimes that were going on.
And I would imagine it would be impossible to be a part of the world not within the imperial and not see and think a lot about the parallels in what's going on with your own experience.
Yep and even contemporaneously, opposition to the war in Vietnam in the US (that wasn't explicitly communist at least) centered entirely on basically "draft bad" and rarely talked about the Vietnamese experience. Hell, the most popular protest song (Fortunate Son) basically just complains that the working class was being sent there but not the kids of rich folks. While true, it still completely ignores the horrific war crimes that were going on.
And I would imagine it would be impossible to be a part of the world not within the imperial and not see and think a lot about the parallels in what's going on with your own experience.