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The Return of the Military Draft
Foreign Policy ^ | 7/10/24 | Raphael Cohen

Posted on 07/13/2024 9:19:38 AM PDT by hardspunned

After decades of becoming increasingly rare, the military draft is back in the debate.

Israel—which has long had mandatory conscription—is currently debating whether or not to lengthen its service for reservists as a result of its ongoing war against Hamas and Hezbollah, and it may soon expand the draft to the currently exempted ultra-Orthodox population following an Israeli Supreme Court ruling voiding the exemption last month. In May, Ukraine expanded its draft in order to replenish its forces as it continues to fight off the Russian invasion. Russia has similarly broadened its compulsory military service in response to mounting casualties in Ukraine. In the Baltic states, Latvia reintroduced the draft in 2023 following Russia’s attack on Ukraine; Lithuania reintroduced it in 2015 in response to Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine; Estonia never abolished it. And halfway across the world, Taiwan recently lengthened its conscription period in response to increasingly menacing threats from China.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: canthappen; neverhappen; nope; wonthappen
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Here we go. Broach the subject in the think tanks. Talk it up. Blunder around incoherently starting wars. Gubmint media ensures the rubes understand it’s necessary to protect Kansas City from butcher Putin. A simple majority vote from the current gang of warmongers in Congress is all it takes in the U.S. to reinstate the draft.

Even though it has not been declared yet, we are in WWIII. Since DC refuses to back off, yes, we probably need to start a draft. The idiots in DC are getting us into a fight for our lives.

1 posted on 07/13/2024 9:19:38 AM PDT by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

I would bet $100,000 that you will never see another U.S. military draft in our lifetimes.


2 posted on 07/13/2024 9:23:38 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (“Ain't it funny how the night moves … when you just don't seem to have as much to lose.”)
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To: hardspunned

Online live feed version soon?

Drawing Birthdays live - Vietnam War draft

https://rumble.com/v4peny9-vietnam-war-draft-1970-drawing-birthdays-live.html


3 posted on 07/13/2024 9:24:37 AM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: hardspunned

DEI says ONLY WHITES will be drafted ?


4 posted on 07/13/2024 9:24:37 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: hardspunned

One would have to be insane to serve the globalists. Let them send their kids.


5 posted on 07/13/2024 9:25:21 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Alberta's Child
I would bet $100,000 that you will never see another U.S. military draft in our lifetimes.

Because it's unconstitutional. Somebody is going to challenge it in the Supreme Court. So the federal government won't dare to do the military draft.

We'll just become like the Romans. We will become more dependent on immigrants to recruit what we need for our military.

6 posted on 07/13/2024 9:27:38 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
Not because it’s unconstitutional, but because the standing U.S. policy of endless wars will come to an end for political reasons.

Do you think anyone would be displaying those stupid Ukraine flags all over their homes and social media pages if several hundred thousand Americans were being drafted to fight over there?

7 posted on 07/13/2024 9:30:55 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (“Ain't it funny how the night moves … when you just don't seem to have as much to lose.”)
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To: hardspunned

Registering for the draft in America:

Register for Selective Service (the draft) | USAGov

USA.gov
https://www.usa.gov › ... › Selective Service

You can register for selective service online or by mail. Print the registration form [PDF, 1.7MB]. Fill it out and mail it to the address on the form.

Who must register for Selective Service:
Almost all men who are 18-25 years old and live in the United States must register for Selective Service. This includes:

U.S. citizens (U.S. born, dual citizens, and naturalized)
U.S. citizens who live outside of the country
Immigrants (legal permanent residents and undocumented immigrants)
Refugees and asylum seekers
Transgender people who were assigned male gender at birth
People with disabilities

See Selective Service’s full list of who is required and exempt from registering.


8 posted on 07/13/2024 9:31:36 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (3+ years! That is the longest, the U.S.A. has ever gone without a real president!)
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To: hardspunned

With the military totally woke like it is, they’re not gonna get the warrior types that they’re looking for. The only gonna get the fat, woke, out of shape slobs.
The warrior types will resist, not comply, avoid at all costs.
Nobody is to gonna go fight and die for the woke, FJB, and/or Zelensky...


9 posted on 07/13/2024 9:31:38 AM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created..." )
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To: Alberta's Child

If somehow, for some reason, God prevents this from going nuclear, we are going to need a draft. Biden, McConnell, the MIC are fast tracking us to a land war in Europe, sans the proxies. It will be an exceptionally good Ukrainian Army, our 200,000 or so actual fighting men and our Euroweenie allies, minus Turkey, versus the best trained and equipped 2 million man army on earth plus China, Iran and the NORKS. Kinda like the Jaws scene, we’re gonna need a bigger army.


10 posted on 07/13/2024 9:31:48 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Alberta's Child

“I would bet $100,000 that you will never see another U.S. military draft in our lifetimes.”

I don’t think the current young would go for it. To them it’s something out of ancient days long dead. They will do their “Yeah…no…”


11 posted on 07/13/2024 9:32:54 AM PDT by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: butlerweave

Nothing would please FedGov more than to round up all the young White men to be shipped off to die in the trenches, bombed by Lancet drones and the survivors left to live out on the streets as “newcomers” live in luxury hotels.


12 posted on 07/13/2024 9:33:52 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Alberta's Child
Not because it’s unconstitutional

Yes, it is unconstitutional.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

because the standing U.S. policy of endless wars will come to an end for political reasons.

Look at Vietnam. The government was able to conscript 2 million soldiers for the war.

13 posted on 07/13/2024 9:36:19 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: butlerweave
DEI says ONLY WHITES will be drafted

No, EVERYBODY, including girls, who will serve in equal numbers in all capacities, including infantry, Speical Forces, etc.

It will be the glorious triumph of equality -- no, EQUITY -- when girls are slaughtered at the front lines in equal numbers as boyz. And if more girls are killed than boyz, then the U.S. will have to kill their own boyz until it evens out.

(trying to think like a Democrat)

14 posted on 07/13/2024 9:36:30 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: janetjanet998

I was lucky number thirteen - July 8th. I was long since home from Vietnam and didn’t really care about it.


15 posted on 07/13/2024 9:37:24 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: hardspunned

Back in 1960, the average person trusted the government. So only the hippies resisted the draft. Everyone else wanted to do their patriotic duty.

Who the heck trusts the government now? Put on a uniform to defend your country, and you just might be sent to some worthless hellhole in Central Asia.

Everyone from the hippies to the good ol’ boys on the farm will resist a new draft. And rightly so.


16 posted on 07/13/2024 9:38:23 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: JonPreston

This Nam vet will cheer them on as they burn their Draft Cards.


17 posted on 07/13/2024 9:38:26 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: janetjanet998

There wasn’t actually a Vietnam War draft, it was just the draft, 33 years of a permanent draft.


18 posted on 07/13/2024 9:39:43 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Leaning Right
Back in 1960, the average person trusted the government.


19 posted on 07/13/2024 9:41:36 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: laplata

The last one to bring up the subject was Rangle in BY-democrat. Let them be the one to push it. It’s summer. School’s out. That way the kids won’t freak out en masse. That’s how they do it.


20 posted on 07/13/2024 9:42:02 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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