If Hellary had won I was looking into sending my son to Israel even though we aren't Jewish. If I'm going to lose him to war, and she was building up to war with Russia that would almost certainly have required a draft, I'd rather it be in defense of Israel than being used as a mercenary by some muslim dictator (as O liked to make US troops do).
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Young men need to look to themselves and prepare for the decline and collapse of our own countries. Even if they did all go to shore up Ukraine or Israel or Taiwan, at this point it wouldn't stop the implosion of the GAE and the neoliberal world order.
The establishment will attempt to implement a draft at some point, but mass conscription requires the consent and cooperation of the majority of the society, and this isn't the 1960s. I don't think they have the means to implement and enforce mandatory military service anymore, and they certainly don't have the political capital. The Boomers and the managerial hangers-on are the only ones with any faith remaining in our institutions. I don't think it's occurred to them that most young men now would flat out say "no, fuck off." And the Boomers especially would never acknowledge that they created that situation.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Perhaps forewarned is forearmed.