Sounds like a draft is being planned for the occupation of Iran, aka Vietnam v.4

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    Sounds like a draft is being planned for the occupation of Iran, aka Vietnam v.4

    I doubt it, or at least, I hope you’re wrong. This would go down like a lead balloon if they did it. The war is super unpopular in the US, probably super, suuuper unpopular among military age young men… who are, broadly speaking, either far left, or anti-semitic… like, a draft is a potential mass unrest inducing event. surely they won’t do it

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          Now that he’s got the military aligned toward a traditional target, they will remain organized in war mode, and become accustomed to following whatever orders come down.

          They will be a lot more difficult to turn against the MAGA government now. I suspect that’s the real reason they invaded now.

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          Who’s victim blaming? I’m more than one of his target groups. If you think this is what martial law looks like you’re in for a shock though. What we’ve seen so far is barely worse than average US police brutality. Things can and likely will get a whole lot uglier.

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      Oh, yeah, they won’t do anything stupid, like starting a wildly unpopular war that will spike gas prices during a midterm campaign that is already about high prices. /S

      They already KNOW they’ll get clobbered at the Midterms, so announcing a Draft will be the perfect punishment. Vote against MAGA? We’ll just kill your children.

      A draft will be a mass resistance event, and they love the chaos. That’s exactly the reason they WILL do it.

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      Not true. Plenty of young people enlist for many reasons… Some enlist for patriotism, some for the benefits, some for lack of options/poor employment options. People who don’t enlist usually have better options… or a least more choices. Military enlistment is usually a pragmatic or desperate decision. People who choose not to are not anti-semitic which is a strange accusation. We are citizens of the US, not Israel… they have their own draft. I do not know why that would even be a consideration for a 17-19 year old in the US. They are not exactly readers or followers of current events-- I mean, if they were intellectuals, they would be attending a college. Most of the enlistees come from economically depressed regions that don’t offer them a bright future.

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        I think you misunderstood my comment, we’re talking about a draft, not voluntary enlistment. Fuck anyone who does voluntarily enlist though, supporting US imperialism and doing the bidding of the elite epstein-loving pedophilic ruling class is never justified, no matter how deprived or desperate your background, someone has it worse than you and isn’t making immoral choices.