I agree that in some cases it’s becoming a little too close for comfort, but it is unfair to pigeonhole Chabad based on the Rashab’s shita–after the hakomas hamedina, things changed (of course though, both the Rayatz and the Rebbe maintained that the hakoma itself was a rishus and that concepts such as the idea that the State is the “aschalta d’geula” are kefira).
Plenty of Lubavitchers join the army, and this has been going on for a very long time. I can’t speak to the social attitudes of the community from decades past (I wasn’t here), but certainly the Rebbe didn’t feel that they were freiacks…
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