• EchoVerse@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 days ago

    Hey if a country relies on forced conscription to win a war, maybe that country shouldn’t exist.

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      Can you be more specific? The USSR had “universal military service” in its constitution and considering who their enemies were I don’t fault them. Isn’t that “forced conscription?” Or, maybe you could argue that these are different times. After all, China doesn’t conscript but their tech is amazing.

      I know that this manner of forced conscription is of an entirely different nature than what Ukraine does, or what Nazi Germany did, where people ended up arming children in desperation near the end of their reign.

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        3 days ago

        A universal struggle for your very existence at the will of your own people and the revolution they had is what the Soviet Union went through.

        This is a state-imposed “struggle for existence” galvanized by Europe and it’s handler the United States in a proxy war against another state that the U.S wants to kneecap. But I get the feeling they have, conscription for any of us would mean fighting for a bourgeois war.