[PearlRiver]

America does not want to prepare for that kind of conflict. It wants B2 bombers because those look cool when they fly over during the Superbowl.

Ukraine is a real war and it is about men and women crawling in the mud constantly terrified of getting blown up. It is literally battle of the Somme again. How do you recruit college kids for that?

[doodlebugging]

You don't recruit them, you draft them.

[expedition32]

Thank god I'm too old. Although I suppose you're never too old for a human wave assault...

[suburban_strike]

Laws are mutable.

Men aged 25 to 60 are subject to conscription under martial law in Ukraine.

Yugoslavia did the same in the 30s, conscripting everyone 21 to 50 before turning Communist.

Japan widened it to 18 to 60 by the time they lost WWII.

[bdangubic]

Bone spurts will take care of that draft (I’ve read that in the President’s Biography…)