I don't understand ANY argument for conscription. Of all the laws on the books that are still "acceptable" in modernity from even the "progressive" crowd, the one that perplexes me the most is conscription.
For me, it's just so simple: If a government needs to force people to fight for the government then the government has no right to exist. A legitimate government should be able to raise a fully volunteer army because all the citizens the government represents wants to fight to defend this government.
Just think about it for a moment. Supposedly some evil enemy is coming to rape your women and kill all the men or enslave everyone by taking their rights away. Everyone should want to defend against that, no? If someone doesn't volunteer to fight against that then clearly they've decided that rape and death is better than... rape and death? Or, perhaps they've decided they can still live without dying for a country and they'd rather this conclusion.
How can anyone justify using force to force something to go to war and die against their will?
I hate the concept of conscription so much I think anyone who suggests it should be hanged, tbh. You want people to fight for you? Offer them an incentive then.
I'd say it was more a psychological loss as the gross incompetence in higher command during Vietnam removed the prestige of why you don't fuck with America which led to more conflicts worldwide.
Just like how under Biden we got saddled with the Ukrainian-Russia war, there seems to be less conflict after America's successful strike in Venezuela.
Vietnam/ the 60s/ 70s was a civil war that the leftists/ socialists won. It was the first real surge of generational warfare that transferred the Cold War from Russia to globalists versus Americans. The immediate effects were an economic collapse because of socialism, bureaucracy and forced desegregation, the longer effect was the uniparty and corporate socialism being formed with Reagan. Everything since then has been a spiral because “conservatives” thought they were voting against people who shared American values and voting for Republican politicians who “shared their values” but magically cave at every opportunity.
You know, as a little white pill, you got to admit this:
It's funny that the first REAL opposition that made them bleed was gamers!
Honestly we have woke shitlibs to thank for tens of millions of men becoming disillusioned simply because their hubris wouldn’t let them do what worked for socialists for decades.