from: https://www.blastwave-comic.com/index.php?p=comic&nro=1
alt text two soldiers in gas masks (full face respirators) rest in a bombed out city, with poisonous air from a nuclear war surrounding them they wear gas masks.
soldier 1: do you know the meaning of this war?
soldier 2: hmm?
soldier 1: i mean… what’s the point it can’t be for the land because everything is burned, bombed or polluted. it can’t be for the money because there is anything left to spend it on. so what is it? religion? why do we fight?
soldier 2: to win the war.
soldier 1: meh… works for me.
Since they are Amerikkkans they fight to protect their ruling class and its ability to exploit them, although they are told it is to “protect the country”.