Folks laughed when I predicted a draft in 2020.
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But there wasn't a draft in 2020? I feel like a draft would be politically untenable. I am sure they would love to do it though, thankfully feds are little simps for public approval.
Not sure they need a draft, they just need a regular rain of bombs and a catchy narrative for the legacy news.
They could take emergency control of US industry to manufacture the bombs, creating employment and "saving the economy".
Spot on, Laser
It would take a war with China or a US civil war for the draft to happen, IMO. Possible though.
I said it in 2020, not that it will occur in 2020.
People are still laughing now.
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The US is a "superpower" that hasn't won a war in 200 years and that has the people with the lowest tolerance to pain and hardship that ever existed.
Vietnam, the great US national trauma, barely 60,000 dead. Iraq-Afghanistan, even more dramatic, barely 10,000 dead over 20 years. Those are a Tuesday afternoon in any war, and you pussy out because of the intolerable loss.
A draft is simply impossible. It will never happen again in the US. The US is in a terminal phase as far as imperial military might goes, using foreigners to fight their wars by proxy, like in Ukraine and probably soon in Israel.