Go ahead, force the draft on Millennials and Gen Z, and watch how fast we frag our commanding officers.

Long past are the days when anyone buys that the West is the "free world".

Maybe you should have spent some actual effort in not letting your quality of life plummet at home before you started rattling sabers. Also probably a bad idea to let a plague cripple half of your people.

I have said this on the news mega the other day: there will be a lot of austerity budget coming soon all across Europe this year. Lots of cuts in welfare and social services, education, healthcare, climate etc.

News like this is just to prime the people to accept why their lives are going to be shitty from this point onwards. Blame the evil Russkies. Certainly not the capitalists. (In case this is not clear, yes, that’s fascism in the making)

Just once I’d love for the outcome of this shit to be that they kill all the ghoul journalists that write shit like this and the politicians they’re simping for instead of shipping off to enforce imperialist agenda

Raising the possibility of reintroducing conscription, he continued: "And who is this we? This debate has to be had."

There's a fuckload of conscription-age people in NATO member states that would also like to ask you "Yeah, who is this 'we'?"

Europe, currently doing a genocide and kowtowing to the warmongering psychopaths in DC, is just a smol bean who must defend itself by engaging in offensive wars of aggression to defend themselves against their completely encircled generational enemy which has, they insisted ont his, an economy smaller than italy's.

Fascists will do anything but make their nation desirable enough to care for / honourable enough to die for.

Guys I know the economic and climate situation is so bad that none of you can ever afford to own your own homes and you have to live in mould infested "apartments" (read: house conversions) while getting paid wages that haven't increased since 2010, and if you somehow manage to succeed, your children will have to fight in the climate wars, and we aren't doing anything to make any of this any better, but please 1) get married and start a family and 2) fight my next war for me.

Episode 13: The Always Stumbling US Empire

"Stumbling", "sliding", "drawn into" war––the media frequently assumes the US is bumbling its way around the world. The idea that the United States operates in “good faith” is taken for granted for most of the American press while war is always portrayed as something that happens to the US, not something it seeks out.

On this episode, Adam and Nima explore the media's commitment to the narrative of "United States as reluctant warrior," whose leadership and decision-making always has the "best intentions." We also examine the new Ken Burns and Lynn Novick PBS series on Vietnam which traffics in many of these tropes. With guest Professor Hannah Gurman.

Some companies are making a lot of profit in the US, UK, Germany, etc, selling weapons. If more people support the continuation or escalation of the conflicts worldwide, these companies can make much more money.

currently russia is outproducing the entirety of NATO armaments wise, sure, let's draft the entirety of europe, what are they gonna fight with? kitchen knives?

HAHAHA

only 18% of millennials would be willing to fight for their country.

What % of millennials are still young enough to enlist even if they did want to

Xi please save me I hate being in the angloid West

Usher in the strongmen.

Is Keith Sturmer or Dishy Rishi the strong man?

Its probably related to the elections to a degree... but Kid Starver has the same foriegn policy as the tories (not a surprise, given his background). Which isn't too unusual, since the Labour party is often the party of war - usually if they want Labour in (and they clearly do) its to fight a war.

On an anecdotal level, I've attended a lot of job fairs, and I'd say that starting around Covid times, there has been a military recruitment stand at all of them, which is new (at least from my experience).

I asked a colleague (hospitality sector) when the Russia war kicked off, if he'd sign up to fight in the event of an invasion, and he said yes. Then I asked what if it was just London being attacked, and he looked disgusted and said no (this was in the North).

The black cross has been the emblem of the German armed forces since 1956 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Cross

The balkenkruez is the uniquely Nazi Cross, which you see in Ukraine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkenkreuz

with an iron cross? It can't be, right? I'm not expert but I'd imagine it's a different symbol

It's an iron cross which is still the symbol of the Bundeswehr to this day.

The Iron Cross was a (Prussian?) award given for bravery. Those given during WWI will have a white and black ribbon while those given during WWII have a swastika in the middle of the cross and a white, black and red ribbon. After the war West Germany allowed it's personnel to keep wearing Iron Crosses from the world wars although they issued new ones without the swastika on it. They kept the nazi-era color scheme for the ribbon though. Being a wartime decoration, new awards has not been made since WWII but I recall reading someone talking about reviving the Iron Cross as German troops are one again being deployed to warzones. The Iron Cross became the symbol of the armed forces of the right-wing American puppet state in Germany, and the highest civil decoration of the West German state, the Bundesverdienstkreuz, has the iron Cross as a sort of aesthetic ancestor.

Meanwhile in democratic Germany, the National People's Army used the state emblem symbolising peasants, workers and intellectuals surrounded by a laurel wreath as well as the words "For the protection of worker's and peasant's power".

At this point mainstream media is just a neocon fanfiction forum

when everything is going wrong in a country, there's always war to distract everyone!

The only way to beat dictatorship is with Western baced dictatorship. This axiomatic