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Americans are not "warriors." We've never celebrated war for its own sake. There is no "warrior culture" here; nor are there "philosophical traditions" for such; the recent fetishization of the trappings of a "warrior culture" is merely the pretending of bored children.
What Americans are, historically-speaking, is avaricious and violent. Americans have often taken what they wanted and even more often used violence to do so. But that is not the same thing as building a culture around the cult of the warrior figure.
"Warriors" are also not the same thing as "Soldiers" or other military professionals. The term warrior gives the context of the untrained, the ill-disciplined, the profit-motivated fighter who fights for themselves, and for glory or honor.
Americans have always respected pioneers, "rugged individualists," cowboys, and frontiersmen, for example. But these are not warrior cult figures. Americans have always respected soldiers, too. Not for reveling in bloodshed though, but for their discipline, heroism, and sacrifice
Discipline, self-sufficiency, regard for one's friends, respect for the law, and the self-abnegation of structure and rank inherent in an ordered military body are the traits of professional soldiers, not warriors. That is what we respect and admire here in America.
The attempt to create a "warrior culture" here in the United States is the attempt to establish an alien and nonsensical ideology that tries to link a thoroughly modern state that was established in the 18th-century to an antiquity it never experienced.
One last point. Warrior cultures are led by warlords.
One last overarching point. The rise of warrior fetishism in America in the 21st-c is absolutely related to toxic masculinity and misogyny. It's the recognition that an archetype historically dominated by men is becoming less exclusive in particular and less relevant in general.
