All of the MCU's Military/Veteran focused shows suck.

So, I've noticed Marvels takes on military and war and veterans can be very asinine, not always, but a lot of the time. I noticed this specifically with Punisher Season 1 and 2, Falcon and The Winter Soldier Season 1, and the Black Widow movie. Mostly with the way they portray functionality of the government, the military, and of the actual soldiers who are main characters. Also, I noticed a trend of the writers make a lot of statements around terrorist/terrorism in general that seems very... not ok... Almost as if their being apologists for them.

I don't have time to discuss every show, so I'm going to only talk about Falcon and The Winter Soldier Season 1, as it has the most issues out of all of them.

Realistically, Falcon and Winter Soldier makes no sense as an attempt at a semi-realistic Espionage/Special-Ops Thriller (Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier did it a thousand times better). For starters, everyone hates and bashes John Walker, both the show itself and the real-life marvel fanbase, but every single thing Walker did was the right call. Not morally, not the popular call to make, but the right one. Almost every time something went wrong in the show it could have been avoided if they went with John Walkers plans. The fact the show tried in every single fathomable way it could spin the terrorist as moral and sympathetic and him as not shows the political bias of the writers.

In reality the show makes no fucking sense because the writers clearly have no fucking clue how the U.S. government/military/U.N./Anti-Terror laws function. The U.S. forces kill all terrorist on sight UNLESS they can get something out of them, which in that case they torture the shit out of them, and if they are lucky they get to live the rest of their miserable lives in a designated U.S. prison specifically for terrorist, like Guantanamo bay, which is essentially the closest the U.S. comes to Russia's notorious Gulag. Regardless of if he's Captain America or not, he would not be stripped of rank and kicked out with no honors just because people caught him on camera, killing an active terrorist who had "given up". Regardless of what you believe or what the media would tell you, a terrorist has NO LEGAL RIGHT to give up like a nation or countrys military combatant has. Terrorists are not considered national forces and have no protection under the U.N. and no military force is required to detain an active terrorist, especially in this case when said terrorists just killed essentially a special forces agent on site. He has no protection of law, neither from the countryside or internationally. Despite what people say, active terrorists CAN and, in this case, WOULD be killed if they had reached an embassy, as protection by the embassy does not count for active terrorists and for an embassy to harbor them would make them an accomplice of terror.

That's not the only problem. The show as a whole spends a whole lot of time, way too much time in fact (Any amount of time on this viewpoint is too much) humanizing the terrorists and trying to sympathize with them and every single attempt falls on its ass in such a laughable way. There's literally one part I thought was for comedy when the lead terrorist (Redhead, I don't remember her name, and I don't give a fuck. She's just terrorist to me.) is talking to some guy and behind her the GRC blows up because of her, and he states, "There's still people in there!" and she replies "This is the only language people understand..." And I burst out laughing. Like, dude, seriously? You're a terrorist and you guys have already committed several attacks and NOW it bothers you? Also, it's gut busting how the show literally has her blow up a building of innocents and say that shit like it's a legitimate point. They are constantly fighting tooth and nail to make you understand her and feel for her and sympathize with her, but you can't because she's literal terrorist trash. I mean, if we're talking that REAL TALK, there are actual REAL-WORLD TERRORIST who had more validation and reasoning behind what they did than this group does in the show. The writers are so blatantly obvious and write their own views with such little tact that the line "You gotta stop calling them terrorist" from LITERALLY CAPTAIN AMERICA (Falcon, still, who IMO was never worthy for the mantle, and only received it due to his brief stint as Captain America in the comics and look how well that went.)

I hope Thunderbolts can do John Walker and Red Guardian justice; they did those two characters so damn dirty...