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Trump World Reportedly Flirts With a Return to Mandatory Military Service
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Trump fails logistics once again. Mandatory military service makes sense in smaller countries because you need a minimum number of people to make a military function. In larger countries like America, we wouldn't even know what to do with that many soldiers. On average 4 million Americans turn 18 each year. Let's assume we're only taking men, and that generously half of them find a way out of service. That's still 1 million new recruits each year. America has the third largest military in terms of manpower in the world and we have 1.4 million active duty troops. In one year we'd double the number of active troops. Now you need to pay, feed, house, arm, and train them, which all takes... more personnel!
After seeing his absolutely bungled exit from Afghanistan, I have full faith in that administration to handle that transition
I'm sure they could put a couple hundred thousands to build and guard the camps inside the US
Don't forget the walls. And then those to build the towers that will have to shoot down the drug drops that will still fly over in drones if it were cement like the great wall. Oh, and those checking for tunnels. As our expenses go up and up as we start having people constantly hunting for tunnels and our population declining and taxes be reduced on the rich.... What happens to the country?
All of this avoided by legalizing and taxing the drugs, growing them here. Easier to regulate, and it cuts the funding to the cartels allowing Mexico to stabilize better and slowly maybe south America if we partner with them on manufacturing. Inflation stabilizes there, a lot more places to live safely. Reducing immigration, while keeping immigrants coming at rates that we can set with updated policy. (That part requires the legislative branch to do their job).. actually all of it requires the legislative branch to do their job. Set age and term limits... Scrub the rust off.