I, for one, am sick of sitting under fluorescent light bulbs and pretending to care about what my co-worker did over the weekend. And this existence brings up many thoughts... one among which is:
Who would not dodge the draft and potentially volunteer if we entered World War 3?
I see potential adversaries being a Russian-Chinese blend. Who would fight?
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All I ask is that we put LowCaliberTalent on the front lines
No gun though. Put him on digging duty or something. We don’t want friendlies dying.
If there were to be a need for a draft, I would enlist without a second thought.
I’ve thought about this recently and concluded that if shit really hit the fan I would just enlist. Wouldn’t need to be drafted. I come from an Army family and always knew I would have had to join the military if I didn’t have a plan after high school. There’s an unavoidable level of patriotism instilled in you growing up around military bases. Never goes away. I would say an attack on US soil is my threshold and I’d join that day. I feel I owe everything to our country and wouldn’t hesitate to pay off that debt.
At least you would get to tell your grandchildren some bad ass war stories, rather than telling them you worked on spreadsheets for 12 hours a day.
I didn't work my entire life to get close to the 1% to volunteer for a draft. Too old for that shit.
Typical liberal response
Just like how your boy Trump approached his service
Enlist in a heartbeat:
“The blood of the heroes is closer to God than the ink of the philosophers and the prayers of the faithful.”
Based. You read Evola?
What's up with all of this Dark Enlightenment crypto-fascist stuff? At a cursory-level, this is a fun quote, but still...
Yeah I mean Evola was not a good guy and I certainly don’t follow him or his work at a deep level, but I still think it’s an interesting quote.
And yeah, the quote kind of insinuates the elevation of heroes to an almost supernatural status, but this is the way it’s been in pretty much every culture for thousands and thousands of years.
At a high level, I don’t think it’s a bad thing to think highly of war heroes, much less romanticize the possibility of being an American war hero in WW3.
I already spent some time in the military so I’m biased, but suffice to say if my country needed me and I thought the fight was just, I’d volunteer for a deployment.
The problem lately is I just don’t find a lot of the fights we get into to be just..
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Nooooo Monty!!!!!
I'll use this platform to raise an ideological question, if I may. My intention is simply to start a conversation and learn more. This question is relevant because it will get to the heart of people's responses to OP's question.
For those who would enlist to "serve your country", what impels you to volunteer your life for the purpose of threatening violence on others in order to ultimately win a war whose spoils is the strengthening of the ideological, economic, and political framework espoused and supported by "your country"?
At least in inner-city gang warfare, you go to war with your opposition because he hurt your homie's cousin's son. What did China do to anyone here that impels them to take up the same arms? Maybe I'm not intelligent enough to internalize abstraction, but does, for example, China's assault on the (questionable) liberty of Hong Kong and Taiwan cause a visceral reaction that would lead you inspire you to drop everything and fight as vehemently as the gang member?
Or am I misunderstanding the ultimate motivation behind those who would enlist to "serve your country"?
Disclaimer to say that I'm the child of dual-ethnic, immigrant couple, so my unfamiliarity with homogeneity might bias me in the wrong ways.
There’s some really good questions here. Speaking only for myself, it’s less about being offended by another country’s actions but more about being alongside and supportive of your own country’s course of action, i.e. patriotism.
The wars of today and tomorrow are fundamentally different from the wars of yesterday. I think people see the static trench warfare in Ukraine and are convinced that wars look more like World Wars I and II when that is probably not the case in a no-holds-barred or few-holds-barred hot war between the US and its adversaries.
The future of warfare likely involves explosive drone swarms like Iran has been producing with its Shahed factories. Overwhelm the defenses with the sheer number of targets. At that point, an effective defense is electronic rather than just conventionally shooting all of them down, because you can't do that in a cost effective way. This is not necessarily a human-intensive strategy.
Separately, a hot war with China is probably going to be over Taiwan, and much of the fighting would be heavily frontloaded into the first 2 months of the war, unlike Ukraine. Failure by China to make a supportable beachhead in Taiwan in the first two months is tantamount to a loss, as there would be so much loss to the People's Liberation Navy by that point that it would be less and less possible, and it would also increase the threat of a blockade on the Straits of Malacca that would starve China out (China is becoming more energy independent, but still heavily relies on shipments of oil and especially food, and China is basically never going to have enough good agricultural land to not require food shipments). A heavily frontloaded conflict is not that conducive to a draft anyway.
I love America more than just about anybody and would help if I felt it was needed or helpful, but the wars of today are fundamentally different from the ones in the past, and may not require as many people as were required before.
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