When people say all men should fight in the war...

It's like saying that if your country was struck by a horrendous tsunami, all men should rush in the direction of the thunami to try to save as many people as possible, despite having zero qualifications or knowledge about tsunamis, and those who run away from the tsunami are cowards who should forever suffer from survivor's guilt.

It is not a crime to literally survive, when disaster strikes.

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Elessar · 31-35, M

It needs something that humanity as a whole has to agree upon. So long as you have countries where conscription is tolerated and others where it's rejected or even abolished, the former will always try to wage war on the latter. If the average Russian told Putin "fk off, go to the front line yourself" the war would've ended before starting.

Another option is having a nuclear deterrence but I fear that if back in 1991 Ukraine decided to keep those warheads it would've been simply invaded before, I guess.

As for voluntary personnel, that's never sufficient, maybe only the US could defend itself with only professional forces and no conscription (ruling out a nuclear response, I mean), and even there I wouldn't be too sure.

peterlee · M

@Elessar We in the UK are vulnerable to Putin. Solid deterrents. Fortunately China need to trade with the West at the moment. So he can be reigned in a little.

Nightwings · F

@Elessar You don't even know what you're talking about, and this is also not the topic of my post.

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peterlee · M

@Nightwings You are quite welcome to come to the UK.

According to our intelligence services we may be subject to cyberattacks.

Nightwings · F

@peterlee Yeah of course they might do little things like that, but generally speaking I don't think you guys need to worry. Thank you for welcoming us haha. =3

Elessar · 31-35, M

@Nightwings Uh? Isn't the post about forced recruitment? Unless I've made a translation mistake that's what I meant with 'conscription'..

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