We've heard A LOT this year (and it's only been a month!), we may need to conscript for a war with Russia! Not enough people are joining the military so we may need to look at conscription! If you don't give your mortgage to Ukraine we may need to conscript you and those you love...
In my opinion, it's all bullshit fear mongering. The last time America did conscription during Vietnam, It caused a LOT of 'friendly fire' incidents against officers or those in higher ranks above the conscripted while the loss of Vietnam basically made conscripting unwilling Americans political suicide. Since then the normies are either too jaded to be patriotic to the elites under the guise of 'national defense' to be conscripted or too weak that they'll likely turn on anyone trying to force them to fight so send them to war against Russia....they'll just mass surrender to the Russians giving them all their equipment too.
Just feels like an extremely desperate play by wielding conscription as a threat as then everyone realises there currently isn't enough military TO conscript the current populations and even then how many of them are loyal enough to the elites to conscript civilians?
I believe conscription could still be successfully enacted in Europe.
But in the United States... no. There's no apatite for it on either the right OR the left base. The leftists will hate it for all the reasons they hated it during Vietnam, and the right will hate it because they don't believe in the cause its for.
European countries don't have enough weapons and gear to equip our laughably tiny standing armies, the fuck would governments give to conscripts? Frying pans?
Same thing they give to Ukrainian conscripts: a 20yo AK, 30 rounds, and a pat on the bum.
We don't even have old rifles, that's the thing.