what do people really mean by "support the troops"?

[Marko]

@Southern

For some reason no one here wants to make any distinctions. War is a horrible thing. The only good choice is to not go to war. Everything else is horrible. In most every war of modern times the soldiers who did the fighting had nothing to gain from the war. Most did not want to go to war. Most veterans wont even talk about what they have seen or done, much less are proud of killing. They may be proud for other reasons but your average soldier does not rejoice in all the death they have seen.

It is you who does not want to make distinctions. You consistently talk of soldiers as a massive unitary category. That is not the case. A German soldier crossing over into Poland on September the 1st 1939 is not in the same category that the Polish defender is in.

I support the Polish troops, I don’t support the German ones.