a true reading of captain america (not solely mcu, but the 616 as well) would show that steve is disillusioned with the modern u.s. military and even fought against them in the vietnam war, alongside the viet cong.
steve does not fuck with imperialism. he is about protecting those who need it no matter what, and especially if he can sense that there are bigger powers at play. the us commited definitive war crimes in the vietnam war (my lai massacre) and continue to do so in what white american liberals call the "third world", or countries who are poor and struggling as a result of u.s. imperialism. you cannot tell me in good conscience that steve supports any of that.
to do away with the "bad apples" take, the presence of the united states in any country is a threat to that nation's sovereignty. it is not providing security. they are not helping. they only make things worse.
the modern us military is full of child murdering war crime committing freaks who believe that it is their right to go to the middle east, and gun down children because it will pay for college. even the non combatant positions. it is all cogs in a wheel.
please do not try to fight me on this. i wish i did not have to get personal, but i choose to share in an effort to educate. both of my parents were forcibly removed from their home countries at young ages. the u.s. had acquired my nations through the treaty of paris, and have since been occupying the land via us military bases, control in the government, and control of the entire economy. puerto rico is the oldest colony in the world, and the fact that some people would rather have the government forcibly make it a state instead of granting independence makes me sick. i think of my dad, the youngest of 13 kids, leaving at 11 years old to move to the us because my abuelo had lung cancer, and there were better medical opportunities in the us.
they had a farm, and my dad tells me stories of chasing chickens and cats and climbing trees and eating the fruit that they grew, and i'm sad that it was taken away from him.
my mom, who left the philippines when she was 6, only tells me that they left to have a "better life." but why does a better life mean moving to the us? because of labor. 7,000 filipinos leave the country every day to find work overseas, because the control the us has on our economy and government has made it unfeasable to survive.
my parents met in the us. they started a family, and i was born. if it was not for us colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism, i would not exist. it has a direct impact on me and the people i love and the stories i hear every single day organizing are horrible. but libs in america blame this on the current administration when the entire system is fucked. it breeds war crimes and exploitation of labor from everything, just to seep up capital.
in 2014, trans filipina jennifer laude was brutally murdered and left to die in a motel room by a u.s. marine corps lance corporal. because, and you wouldn't know this, but any area that has a u.s. military base, has a redlight district around it. child prostitution and other violent sexual crimes are committed every single day because the girls know that the white men pay them well and they need to support themselves. i do not blame them.
the us has funded a modern genocide and continues to do so. they have always been like this. like, hey, remember when the us bombed a baby formula plant in iraq and they justified it by saying it was a biological weapons site?
they invade and provoke countries and ruin their economy and fund murder under the guise of protection. like i fear the enemy is in the mirror.
i do not believe that sam wilson would have been in afghanistan. making a character who in the source material is a social worker in harlem a piece of their war machine is psychotic. one of the only black people in the mcu period and they choose to do that to his character to make him more likeable to a white american audience. i just do not accept that characterization. marvel studios has contracts with the department of defense and they are not allowed to portray the us in a bad light.
the captain america fandom at large has had this problem since the inception where they make steve like... liberal. like that boy wasn't in the youth communist league. when he finds out about the atom bomb, i imagine he stares out of a window for 4 hours not moving maybe not even breathing before throwing up violently. even in steve's war, the us soldiers were not the heroes they claimed to be. when the war in the pacific got to the philippines, which was occupied by japan, the us, who was also occupying the land, would just bomb entire cities to get rid of the japanese. where indigenous people lives. where families lived. and where they died.
steve is disgusted at what has become of it. he does not want to associate it. he spends his time going to countries the u.s. has ravaged and spending time and helping the people there. integrating. just because he is a veteran does not automatically mean he would stand for genocide and imperialism.
so yes. he would say How did you stepping on an IED protect this country.
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