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US has smallest military in over 80 years as enlistment hits lowest since 1941๐
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At least this time they are not calling for a draft I guess
They can't. No one's going to fucking show up. Millions of Americans will try to dodge, and boomers throughout the country will be furious that Biden or whoever is trying to send their kids to die on foreign soil.
And after decades of failed adventures in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria and now witnessing the US response to Israel's genocide, hardly anyone here of proper age is gonna be willing to fight and die for the ruling class's profits. The resistance to a US draft now would be enormous, bigger than with Vietnam. Cities would shut down and burn from riots. The US isn't going to be winning any major overseas land invasion while also having to go to war with its populace at home all across the country. A draft here would be very very difficult for the ruling class to pull off without a seriously successful propaganda campaign, which is becoming rapidly inconceivable as the citizens continue to wake up.
Just about the only thing that I can see possibly working out in the US's favor for a draft is if they can pull off a false flag attack of enormous damage.