I tend to avoid talking politics with my parents (mostly because they watch CNN and MSNBC all of the time), but in rare instances where war comes up, I ask them, "what if they reinstate the draft?" Their immediate response is, "that will never happen" and that is the end of the conversation. I sometimes think they say that because they don't want to even entertain the idea of the possible outcomes of a draft for their children, though perhaps they genuinely believe that the draft would never be reinstated because of potentially how unpopular it would be. I have seen similar strong opinions on this board about the impossibility of a draft in the United States, and I have to wonder why you are all so certain about it?
Time and again we have seen decisions by the government being made that defy logic, especially politically, only for the average citizen to look on in complete apathy at best, and sheer joy at worst. Years of the Syrian Civil War being plastered everywhere with criticisms of US inaction have made the left more hungry for war. The Ukraine War has seen leftist individuals (even the trannies who you would expect to whine and moan about doing anything) actually travel to Ukraine and participate in fighting. The propaganda is powerful, and the apathy towards resisting is even stronger.
I think you would have to be foolish to not even entertain the idea of the Establishment reinstating the draft. It doesn't matter if the logistics would be impossible as that has rarely stopped the government before. As far as I see it, the Silent Generation and the Boomers are not satisfied with merely passing away quietly, they want to go out in a blaze of glory, consequences for their children, and the human race as a whole, be damned.
Every Western society, without exception, is far less cohesive than it was back in 1968. Ever-growing numbers of people are mentally and physically ill (particularly obese), and are simply incapable of being effective at doing much of anything at all, let alone engage in war-fighting. Operating drones is probably all that they could manage. Forget trying to get them to build or repair the things. The willpower isn't there either. There is far more ideological polarization: 'The war is -ist &or -phobic', 'The war is that of [the bourgeoisie, the patriarchy, the tyrannical State, the Zionazis, &c.]', 'We'll all die from climate change anyway, so what's the point?', 'This is the trans genocide we've all been warning about! They'll go door to door and we'll be forced to choose at gunpoint between being genocided overseas or being genocided in our homes!'.
Not to mention the racial problems: just try a draft in 2024 America and see how well that goes down in non-white areas. 'It's a White supremacist plot! They're getting us to fight their wars, and all so that they can seize America in our absence!' It'll make the George Floyd riots look like child's play. Furthermore, there is no real way that they could only draft Whites in order to avoid antagonizing the other races. Even a Whites-only draft would be 'racist'. Consider a narrative like the following, how easily it would spread: 'The Whites are training their young people to kill non-whites overseas, which is all in preparation for the genocide that they are to commit against us when they bring them back to America! It's a White supremacist plot!' (Yes, again!) In short, there is no draft that is not racist and White supremacist. Next, look at the racial demographics of people of fighting age: drafting non-whites is practically inescapable. Finally, a racially-discriminatory draft probably requires massive changes in law.
It's clear that the vast majority of them aren't up for it, as evidenced by the fact that they're still in our societies today. Years before that, similar idiots went to Rojava to fight against Islamic State on behalf of the Kurds and their libertarian socialist nonsense. You'll always find a few outliers, like the kind of Leftists in the Socialist Rifle Association and Pink Pistols.
You also have to keep in mind that the Russians and Belorussians are painted by the West as 'White Far-Right Nazis': the very worst thing that you could possibly be in late-modernity. Everything from education to Hollywood to mass media has whipped up existential fear and hatred of this group for almost a century: they are Satan for secular people. By contrast, you can't convincingly paint the 'yellow' feminist Marxists of East Asia and the brown Muslim world as goosestepping Hollywood Nazis. Mass repression of Tibetans and Uighurs doesn't elicit the same response that the 'Holocaust' does. Likewise, the world isn't cheering on Israel's mass murder of Palestinians the way they would be if they were killing literal Nazis.
Someone else mentioned 'but Covid' (i.e. lock-downs and vaccine mandates) in the comments as a point in your favour. I don't see that as remotely comparable. Re-read my first paragraph and observe that none of it happened during Covid. Mental and physical illness wouldn't impact most people's ability to get vaccinated. Nor does ideology matter. Kamala was the original Covid anti-vaxxer, saying on air that she wouldn't take 'Trump's vaccine' because it was 'rushed' in time for the election. Then the Biden Administration came in and suddenly being an 'anti-vaxxer' was 'Far-Right'. And look who violated the lock-downs when the Fentanyl Floyd riots occurred? If anything, not violating the lock-downs was what would cast suspicion on you at that time. 'Why aren't you out there protesting for racial justice? You some kind of Nazi or something?' What about Afghanistan? They were all for withdrawal during the Obama Administration, but look at how many of them blamed Trump when the Taliban seized it back? Suddenly, many of them openly wished that the Biden Administration would continue the occupation.
All this demonstrates that the Left has no serious commitment to pandemic lock-downs, vaccine mandates, or being 'anti-war'. They become instrumentally committed to them under select circumstances, such as when they need an excuse to prevent their perceived enemies from protesting or for oppositionist, 'enemy of my enemy is friend' reasons: the Republicans don't like these things very much, we don't like the Republicans, therefore we will go the other way and embrace said things. They will disobey pandemic lock-downs to fight 'racism'; they will be 'anti-vaxxers' if they think that the vaccine in question has something to do with the 'Right-wing'; they will support wars that they see the 'Right-wing' as opposing. The only thing to which they are intrinsically committed is maintaining the pace of degeneration of all kinds: positivizing it, promoting it, and combating anything that could slow it, let alone stop or reverse it. Since public health and foreign policies are largely amoral, they do not matter. But since the 'neo-Nazis', Republicans and Russians are at a lesser stage of degeneration than they, all three matter, all three are forms of the same 'evil' (i.e. regeneration), and all three must be destroyed.
Look at the 'draft' in the Ukraine: literally abducting random men off the street and taking them away in unmarked vehicles. And yet look at how many resist: many successfully run away, some successfully manage to beat up the 'recruiters', and many of those they succeed in abducting still struggle against them. Maybe a month ago, one even blew himself up with a grenade that he must have saved up for the occasion, one that he must have felt was inevitable, severely wounding at least one 'recruiter'. A few days ago, I saw a video of a Ukrainian who stole a tank and drove straight to the Russian frontlines to surrender. Once they figured out what he did, they gave him a pat on the back and let him walk free. All of this happened within a few minutes. In conclusion, you can't even draft the comparatively normal Ukrainians. What makes you think that you can draft the much more dysfunctional people of the West? The America, Australia, Canada, &c. of 1968 no longer exist: these countries simply can no longer manage the things that they once could.