I have finally concluded that war is an unavoidable feature of humanity. I guess I have arrived.
The fact is, if the United States hopes to deter or defeat a Chinese attack on Taiwan, it should be prepared to effectively implement a draft. To be clear, this is a solution of last resort, but one that may be necessary.
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Any politicians who support this should be prepared to face a recall election and/or lose their seat during the election cycle. That’ll be the least of their worries as rioting (and support for rioting) will be quite high.
Why wait. Just "conscript" yourself.
I, for one, am happy to die for Victoria Nuland, Anthony Blinken, and Hunter Biden.
There is no possibility of a draft, and any attempt would fail.
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If we need the draft, we should be conscripting the best and the brightest.
I propose we start with everyone in our prestigious Ivy League Universities and the Blood Relatives of EVERY Elected Official in this Country.
LOL.
If China invades Taiwan and my sons are conscripted to protect them, I can assure you that all three of us will be hunting down commies. But they won't be the ones in Beijing.
Nobody that I love will be conscripted as a slave to fight for the Globohomo Empire. It's not happening. That is a hill I will die on.
If the cause is Just and the people support the war action, a draft isn’t necessary.
Click bait drama hyperbole.
If we are “attacked” by China or Russia it would escalate faster than a fat ass Command Sergeant Major from Minnesota could roll himself over to the cabinet to pull out the plan.
Our military might recall people from the IRR, but they have no need for Gen Z malcontents.
If that happens, the war is already over.
Taren and Catherine need to march into China first.
watching videos of the new wars, drones big and small and in your face drones.
WTF?
I want DEI applied to war deaths.
At a minimum, the executive branch and Congress should actively pursue a more proactive approach. The National Security Council should take the lead on mobilization exercises. Congress should also get out ahead on expanding Selective Service System registration to all Americans between the ages of 18–25, thereby preventing future legal challenges to the current all-male registration system when time may be of the essence.
So the rectums who love wars, now want to include women in their B$ drafts. (Excerpt) Read more at warontherocks.com ...
as long as one individual says to the other that their nose needs to be blown, there will be wars.
I am of the last generation of the draft. with the ignorance/illiteracy/ math= racism bilge that exists today, balanced with all the whizbang technology coming forth cor the military, we have allowed ourselves not nly to buy the dildo, but all the various instructions and choice of lubricants!
The machinery of the 1970s draft allowed the I.Q. level of 80 to be drafted. These poor unfortunate souls became cannon fodder.
There were no women drafted in those days. All the prime examples portrayed in all sorts of categories, would be a waste and a constant battle of the minds between any superior NCO or officer grade.
We could have drafted ground troops in Taiwan, South Korea, Iran and Ukraine all at the same time.
The Neocons get all excited just thinking about it.
It is of course totally insane.
Let the Democrats espouse bringing back the draft.
We don’t necessarily have to go to war over Taiwan. We could just sever all diplomatic and trade relations with China. Bar all Chinese products and encourage our allies (Australia, the EU, Japan, etc) to do the same. At a stroke, China’s economy would be utterly ruined. There is simply no way to make up losing those huge markets. There are no replacements for them. The Chinese economy would go straight into the toilet and would stay there.
Facts should tell you our military is extremely short of personnel. Do you want to face any enemy without training? We need a draft, and; this nation is obese, and many could not pass any military PT test.
I recall in 1965 we may have had 3-4 obese per 1,000. When was the last time a kid knocked on your door looking for work?
Nonsense. This isn’t 1940. If a world war broke out it would be over in a few hours.