• @NothingButBits
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    201 year ago

    It’s not a draft. It’s merely the reserves being called to active service.

      • @NothingButBits
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        131 year ago

        I know, but the Western media insists on calling it a draft to pretend Putin is desperate.

        • JucheBot1988
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          1 year ago

          With the Vietnam War still very much within living memory, “draft” is also a Very Bad Word in America. To most people, it (as you said) conjures up images of a desperate government trying to win an unpopular and unwinnable war. It also pushes all the right referential buttons for liberals, bringing up images of hippies and peace signs and protest marches.

    • relay
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      51 year ago

      well, this is what the US did during the Iraq war.

      • @Shrike502
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        41 year ago

        Really? I thought it was only active personell plus “security contractors”?

        • relay
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          31 year ago

          Them too. Army reserves and mercenaries that somehow were less accountable than the army from what I remember.

          • @Shrike502
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            21 year ago

            Didn’t know about reserves. Thanks!