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Americans don't want to fight for their country anymore
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Won't anyone think of the profits!
I'd sign up to fight Russia or China but otherwise the armed forces can suck a dick.
Why?
If they invaded my city maybe.
Hostile militaristic dictatorships with unchecked power will eventually be my problem or my children's problem or their children's problem, I would like to try to nip the problem in the bud. Of course, if the USA were to invade and conquer Russia right now it would create whole new problems of civil rights and complete lack of representation just like the Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico but at a massive scale, but that's in my opinion still better than the risk of allowing them to expand and grow in power to the point where nothing can be done to stop them.
Same reason I would have signed up to fight nazis. Authoritarianism is always worth fighting.
Inb4 someone says "the us army is authoritarian," as if the inherent hierarchy in an army is in any way equivalent to the violations of civilian rights that actual authoritarian regimes commit
Which America? The US is so divided they should split into three separate countries.
Why does nobody wanna die no more 😭
Maybe aligning a large portion of the state budget to the perpetual growth of the arms industry may not have been such a good idea.
Miss leading. People with still fight for their country in the US. Just not offensive wars.
After I realized that I fell for the lies that pushed us into Iraq (the second time) I was determined to educate any kids I might eventually have about why they should never trust and never join the US military. I then proceeded to do that. To be clear, my issue has less to do with the military itself than the civilian leadership.
I'm pretty sure we're gonna have to fight our own country pretty soon so it's not surprising a lot of people don't want to fight for it.
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Almost everyone I know that went into the military did it for the experience and to be able to go to college. That was when people believed a college degree would set you up for a stable future. Now that millennials know this isn't true and we're not lying to gen Z, they sure as shit don't believe it either.
The military should add to its incentives. If the military could for example, build you a modest home then I'm sure people would start joining again.
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Yeah I'm not trynna make the world worse
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