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174941f7 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It's less about getting you to want to enlist and more about convincing everyone else to look the other way as the press gang drags you from your home and dumps you into the trenches.
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Big Lyle :sonnenrad: 🚪 :catnoears: :buceerad: | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Where would the US be fighting a major land war with trench warfare that requires mass conscription?
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ShadowBroker :pondering_orb: :windmilloffriendship... | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Only way I can see that is if they jump in to help Ukraine. How does all that work though? Will the US have to restrict itself into not entering Russia proper in exchange for an agreement to not use nukes?
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sargoysmuck | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Them maintaining their current bases and infrastructure is looking like it’ll require conscription.  Apparently the darpa ethots didn’t pan out.
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ShadowBroker :pondering_orb: :windmilloffriendship... | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 One fix for recruits being too fat would be to put some heavy regulations on sugar. But that would cut into the killing they're making off of diabetics.
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Jens_Rasmussen | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 In the continental USA.