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No one is going to resist squat because there is no political movement sufficiently organized to arrange any effective resistance.

How many people refused the vaccine, despite all the pressure put on them to take it?

Not all resistance has to involve taking up arms and forming into squadrons to fight people.

Draft Evasion in the Vietnam War

More than half of the 27 million men eligible for the draft during the Vietnam War were deferred, exempted or disqualified.
The head of U.S. President Richard Nixon's task force on the all-volunteer military reported in 1970 that the number of resisters was "expanding at an alarming rate" and that the government was "almost powerless to apprehend and prosecute them". It is now known that, during the Vietnam era, approximately 570,000 young men were classified as draft offenders, and approximately 210,000 were formally accused of draft violations; however, only 8,750 were convicted and only 3,250 were jailed Some draft eligible men publicly burned their draft cards, but the Justice Department brought charges against only 50, of whom 40 were convicted.

So, just spitballin' here: but do you think that number / percent that don't view the Government as legitimate and aren't willing to turn themselves over to the U.S. Military for conscripted service in a big-ass war with Russia over the Biden's private corruption outlet - would be BIGGER or SMALLER than the percent that evaded the draft in the early 1970s, before it was abolished.

Because I'm pretty sure the NEW anti-draft movement will DWARF the one that they shut down in 1973.Remember: it was only shut down by ending the draft in 1973.

Where I'm from we call that "capitulation", which is fancy word for "losing the argument" over whether FedGov can make people fight for it.

Depends on the number of people and how far the government will go.

The anti-war movement in the 1960s was treated with kid gloves because it was leftist. The current regime is very unlikely to be so lenient.

They'll not only go after the draft dodgers but the parents as well for "conspiracy" to evade the draft. The parents will lose their jobs, be subject to arrest, their other children will be subject to being harassed at school, bullied online and denied admission to college. You won't even be able to register your car, your bank balances will be frozen and credit cards canceled.

There are a thousand techniques of coercion available when you exercise unchecked authority.