many different factors that lead young men to participate in wars they neither fully understand or deserve.
Many? The majority did it for school money, which far poorer nations provide to their populations. We withhold it to encourage mercenary behavior.
In your mind it boils down to a black and white equation that has little or nothing to do with reality
Yup. Do you accept a paycheck in return for participating in wanton slaughter or not? It is simple. I worked at McDonalds instead of enlisting and so could anyone else.
Check yourself dude.
I'm not the one defending the massacre of a million innocent people so that some dumbfuck lazy kids could go to college when they didn't earn it.