>tmw you realize the invention of lightweight firearms caused child soldiers

>because otherwise they'd be useless

Just consider it a earlier start in a soldiers career

We all know that they would have ended up fighting when they got older anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I17QjIC6QJw

sure, but its hard to find them a new career when all they've done is been a soldier since the age of 8 or whatever

It countries like that being a soldier is basically the only career anyway

>fight other tribe
>capture oil field

*well shit, i guess the country just isnt getting better then snake*

your pfp is against child soldiers lmao

No because when all you have to do is capture a oil to sell oil to rich countries that’s what ends up happening

I am against child soldiers, I’m just trying to explain how fucked those countries are

*and people wonder why the US was defending oil fields*

"Man, why am i here to defend this fucking oil field?"
>To cripple the economy of the enemy

The only difference is that America isn’t playing tribal politics, it’s just wanting to take oil

Oil is only good when you have a stable government and a homogeneous population

If both of those conditions are gone you get Angola

so........

are you suggesting.......

that if they had competent militaries........

they'd be fine?

America is playing the tribe of universalism and internationalism

sex is not cahs money when your ass hurts afterwards

Yeah that could do it too

Having the biggest military to crush your opponents

Like what Yugoslavian Serbs tried to do

how else am i gonna defend my oil fields from child soldiers?

The problem is that these elites don’t spend money on competent militias

They only pay for as much as they need to

They pay the bare necessity

well, actually, no

And take as much profit they can

the problem is, theres not enough trained soldiers to make it be worth a damn in the area

and to get them *competent*, it takes years of training

meanwhile

>grabs all the child soldiers

Basically r/K selection theory with soldiers

And we have to save these people from themselves

But not really, we just take the oil ourselves

the thing with child soldiers is that they hook them up on drugs to make them *relatively* fearless, there's a fast growing recruitment pool, you dont need to pay them, and they're forced to be loyal on pain of gangrape, beatings, or death. it also fucks with the morale of the enemy. a ton of the forces with child soldiers would be **way smaller** if they couldnt recruit em, but the existence of small arms makes it a reality