[PKop]

I imagine you won't be signing up to fight in this war you envision others fighting? Maybe you should be sent, or perhaps your son?

[blaser-waffle]

Why not send your daughter? It's 2019 after all.

Equality means they can be fed to the meatgrinder too.

[remarkEon]

I know this is sarcastic, but it’s a telling marker of how unserious the US has gotten in terms of preparing for a full scale war that we’re even entertaining that idea.

[devoply]

With the sort of salaries US pays troops you could easily have a million mercs lined up from all sorts of different countries by Thursday next week.

[sametmax]

Where would the million mercs come from ?

Is there even a million of mercenaries available around the entire world ?

How would you make them even work together ?

A million people is huge.

[PKop]

To do what exactly?

[devoply]

Liberate Hong Kong.

[throwaway8879]

I recommend you study the human history of politics and warfare, to fully understand why your comment is supremely naive.

[PKop]

How would sending ground troops into Hong Kong, or China accomplish anything but getting a lot of people killed?

[sametmax]

You mean like the US liberated Iraq ?

EDIT: damn it, Irak (french) is spelled with a q in English.

[NikolaeVarius]

Innocent question why spell Iraq with a k I've never seen that before and wondering if it has special meaning outside of just a way to spell it

[edflsafoiewq]

It's spelled that way in a lot of European languages.