This is an opinion piece, how can one person make such sweeping claims about an entire generation without even doing any interviews or anything.
It’s a stupid opinion piece too. Ofc the army numbers go down during peacetime… What would be the point of paying for a 500k+ army you aren’t using?
Also I’m pretty sure when most people were drafted for WW1 or WW2 they weren’t happy about it.
Ah just saw the note about the site being an opinion news site, makes sense then
LBC is generally just shit rage-bait and controversy farming.
They don’t do journalism.
Actually many people were happy to be drafted in WW1 and 2. They volunteered. Women wouldn’t date you if they thought you were a coward. People wouldn’t hire you.
It was such a problem that people with invisible handicaps (epilepsy, hearth issues, flat feet, etc.) carried around their 4F papers to show that it wasn’t their fault they weren’t at the front.
Yeah people used to actually be proud of their country, which I think is going to be the most interesting difference with ww3
Who downvoted me within 2 min of posting this? Lemmy why are you like this? It makes it not fun to post here
Are we genuinely worried there might be a big war with Russia? We’re basically talking about WW3 here. Shouldn’t this issue be confronted at a deeper level than “whether to do conscription?” The (perceived) necessity for conscription should be resolved.
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The West would rather threaten human extinction than actually do diplomacy. This is just the progession of imperialism against the Global South and Russia.
Russia has already put down the frothing at the mouth Ukranian govt. So now the US is going to do the same thing to the rest of Europe and have them become proxies in the American assault against Russia. The EU will let this happen because they are also a bourgeois dictatorship.
Any western libs who deny this just want to see dead ukrainian children fight for them. The West will not win, only throw tantrums.
For me it would depend on the war. If it’s the start of WW3 and they’re going to give me a gun to shoot myself with then sign me the fuck up! Much better than waiting for the nukes to fall
Good on them
