We have the mechanisms still in place for it. All men (18-30?35?) are forced to sign up under the selective service act. They usually do it when you get an ID, you just sign an extra piece of paper when you get your license or ID card as a teen… And then hopefully nothing happens with it
But make no mistake, it is in place, and there are people constantly advocating we use it
We don’t have an active draft in that they’re not drafting people, but I think having the ability to call a draft is generally what people mean by draft
And I certainly hope you’re right… They’re trying to drum up support for war with Iran, and if that goes ok for them we’re not going to have less war
They can’t have nukes, they’re close to having nukes, general nuke hysteria, “we couldn’t make a deal”, going over the history of Iran and Israel (obviously not mentioning how Israel blew up their negotiator just now or Iran’s attempts to deescalate and normalize global relations for years now), reminding everyone Iran sponsors terrorist groups, etc etc
I mean there’s congress members calling for us to launch an attack on them explicitly, some wanted us to launch the first strike on the enrichment facilities while we were still trying to make a deal
We’re in the “feel out the room” stage, they’ve had a carrier group in the area since like January. The next stage is announcing they’ve already attacked
I agree they’re putting out feelers but I don’t think they’ll get traction. I didn’t find anyone calling for direct US intervention, mainly just indirect support for Israel. Who was saying that?
I also found some leaders explicitly saying the US should not get involved. I guess it feels a lot different from the post-9/11 years when it felt like only political radicals were opposed to war, and basically every mainstream voice was cheering it on. So that’s why I’m a bit more optimistic.
US President Donald Trump said in a Sunday interview wih ABC News that the United States might get involved in the Iran-Israel conflict and expressed openness to having Russian President Vladimir Putin act as a mediator.
I guess we’ll see what happens, certainly I’ve seen some prominent voices on the right pushing back here so it’s not clear he’ll go through with it, but openly saying these things is not good.
Yep, pretty much. Although there’s a noticable lack of opposition from Democratic leadership… There’s a lot of “we’re going to watch the situation closely”
It’s not a sure thing, but it’s worrisome
Weirdly enough, the military might be one of the biggest sources of resistance. Watching them walk instead of march in the parade was very interesting… So was their choice in music.
We have the mechanisms still in place for it. All men (18-30?35?) are forced to sign up under the selective service act. They usually do it when you get an ID, you just sign an extra piece of paper when you get your license or ID card as a teen… And then hopefully nothing happens with it
But make no mistake, it is in place, and there are people constantly advocating we use it
I’m aware and yeah it should be abolished but I still wouldn’t say we have the draft currently. It could be brought back though.
Thankfully the sentiment in the US recently has been fairly anti-war so I am not sure they could get away with it barring some kind of extreme events.
We don’t have an active draft in that they’re not drafting people, but I think having the ability to call a draft is generally what people mean by draft
And I certainly hope you’re right… They’re trying to drum up support for war with Iran, and if that goes ok for them we’re not going to have less war
Are they? What are they saying regarding Iran?
They can’t have nukes, they’re close to having nukes, general nuke hysteria, “we couldn’t make a deal”, going over the history of Iran and Israel (obviously not mentioning how Israel blew up their negotiator just now or Iran’s attempts to deescalate and normalize global relations for years now), reminding everyone Iran sponsors terrorist groups, etc etc
I mean there’s congress members calling for us to launch an attack on them explicitly, some wanted us to launch the first strike on the enrichment facilities while we were still trying to make a deal
We’re in the “feel out the room” stage, they’ve had a carrier group in the area since like January. The next stage is announcing they’ve already attacked
I agree they’re putting out feelers but I don’t think they’ll get traction. I didn’t find anyone calling for direct US intervention, mainly just indirect support for Israel. Who was saying that?
I also found some leaders explicitly saying the US should not get involved. I guess it feels a lot different from the post-9/11 years when it felt like only political radicals were opposed to war, and basically every mainstream voice was cheering it on. So that’s why I’m a bit more optimistic.
Well, just to follow up…
Fuck me…
I guess we’ll see what happens, certainly I’ve seen some prominent voices on the right pushing back here so it’s not clear he’ll go through with it, but openly saying these things is not good.
Yep, pretty much. Although there’s a noticable lack of opposition from Democratic leadership… There’s a lot of “we’re going to watch the situation closely”
It’s not a sure thing, but it’s worrisome
Weirdly enough, the military might be one of the biggest sources of resistance. Watching them walk instead of march in the parade was very interesting… So was their choice in music.
We’re in the bizzaro timeline for sure