Have you heard about this whole insurgency thing? That was with 60-90 percent of the country (depending on which one) supporting our presence. When the entire country doesn’t want you there you won’t be able to walk down the street without getting shot at. Canada would be the 51st state for the exact amount of time we’re willing to keep most of our active duty Army deployed there.
I hate that you’re right. In my poli sci classes they taught that every political decision has winners and and losers but I never thought we’d see a president killing Americans on purpose.
Yeah I can’t imagine that. I hope you come through okay.
Point of order, Germany definitely didn’t start WW1 in the way they teach kids. It was the elites, their honor pacts, and a complete misunderstanding of what technology had done to war. And in fact Austria-Hungary was the first to declare war, (on Serbia), which triggered Russia and France to mobilize next. That left Germany with the option of watching Austria-Hungary lose a war and have Germany lose in the great power game or roll the dice. They rolled the dice, like every other Royal Family at the time.
I think understanding how the international web of elites can affect us is key to avoiding world war 3. World War 2 is entirely on the Germans though, as is Trump’s second term on all Americans. We do need to stand up.
It’s people trying to absolve themselves of their civic responsibility.
Nope, I’m sorry but as a country we absolutely did.
We still own this as a country. Any other attitude risks not making the necessary changes to prevent this in the future.
I love how they didn’t even exempt heating oil for the northern states. They acknowledged that tariffing it was fucked up by only doing a 10 percent tariff on it but it didn’t cross their minds to just exempt it. A ten percent price increase on heating is going to literally kill people.
We do but NAFTA really made things spread out. We’ve made a lot more progress unifying the North American economies than people think. This is going to be ten times as painful as Brexit was for the British. And to undo it Mexico and Canada are going to demand we take on a trade deficit with them as a way of helping their economies in case the deal goes south with the president after whoever is fixing this mess.
If you’re actually in danger of homelessness I encourage you to look at the many guides to doing it in a way that makes it easier to get back off the street as soon as possible. A lot of people try to hold on for far too long and end up in legal trouble and blacklisted from renting a place.
As to McFuckstick, there’s not much we can do until 2026. I’m sorry he’s put you in a bad position.
That’s why you do other things too. Ambulance drivers, library helpers, school assistants, construction corps, etc…
It’s socialism as described by the GOP though, which is why it’s so funny.
If we have 100 percent service and they don’t serve then they don’t get the rights of citizenship either.
A lot of countries make that distinction. Everyone goes through basic but you have to volunteer into a deployable job.
6 percent. That’s the percentage of the US population who are veterans. I don’t think a military only mandatory service would work in the US but we don’t have the same effect just based on a volunteer military.
You should judge people for who they are. They absolutely change over time, and the military really likes indoctrinating kids before they get good critical thinking skills. Many recruits quite literally didn’t realize what they’ve signed up for, even without the unfathomable parts.
The stuff we’re finding out about modern war is that it’s all brain damage. If you’re regularly firing rounds of any kind then you’re damaging your brain. In a normal training environment it’s not really noticeable. But when you start going through entire cargo trucks of shells, bullets, or missiles on a daily basis then real damage is happening. There isn’t anything you can do to mitigate it and still fight a war.
With this new understanding of what’s happening in war zones our society needs to have a really big conversation on just when it’s okay to put any soldiers into combat.
It depends on how it’s done.
First, there has to be a compensation. Generally speaking free college gets tied to it a lot. In the US a mandatory service isn’t getting off the ground without it.
Second, there needs to be multiple avenues of service. It cannot just be military. To be honest, the military can’t handle the number of conscripts. There’s about half a million every year. So spreading that out into other service avenues such as a construction corps, EMTs, hospital helpers, legislative staff, libraries, etc, is required. (The specifics are obviously up for debate)
I do believe a mandatory service brings people together and strengthens a country. But it’s just not possible for a large country like the US to do military only mandatory service.
People do run into problems. It’s well known that too many Bluetooth devices in a small area can jam each other. It’s not an on/off switch, it’s increasing amounts of interference in the signal. So it appears as interruptions in audio/video or unintended noise.
War of 1812.