https://responsiblestatecraft.org/milit ... iness-war/
a piece that has been increasingly been asked in recent times, who exactly will fight all these american wars, the lordships want bodies on the ground to act as bullet catchers and hopefully defray any outstanding social security liability, the mic and the o&g want personnel, preferably not on their payroll to make monies for their investors, greatest allies want golems to undertake social engineering in middle east for biblical, strategic and schizophrenic reasons, but where is the willing public to fulfill all these legitimate requests? trial ballons for a draft have been floated at an increasing pace, this is one of them
Perhaps even more worrisome, and far less excusable, is the fact that we don’t know ourselves. In a world growing less stable by the day, the disconnect between our policymakers in Washington and the American public is frightening. While prominent national security experts of both parties seem to be coalescing around maximalist approaches toward the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, and lobbying for a more confrontational stance toward China, the American public appears largely tuned out, instead focused on challenges closer to home, like paying bills, raising children, and navigating polarizing domestic politics.
But am I convinced, in this toxic political climate, that farm boys from Kansas, warehouse workers from the Rust Belt, and college students from the Pac-12 would race to recruiting offices to help Taiwan repel a Chinese invasion? Or to deploy to the Middle East to dive into what looks like an intractable conflict with complicated roots dating back at least 75-years? Not really.
Unfortunately, there seems to be no appetite for such a call to service on the part of the same leaders and pundits lobbying for a muscular, militarized foreign policy. It is remarkable to witness swaggering commitments to the potential use of force against Great Power adversaries on Capitol Hill but absolutely no willingness to discuss the national sacrifice that it would require.
And so, if we conclude a draft won’t happen, we’d be better off addressing the massive disconnect between Washington rhetoric and the extent of Americans’ willingness to fight now, as opposed to after our leaders talk us into another, and possibly far more calamitous, war.
it must be stated for the powers that be might be a little slow on grasping this one, one only fights if defending something, and fights offensively only against an "Othered" enemy; this othering is one of the chief reasons of yellow journalism mixed with truth in adjustable proportions, subhuman tendencies, baser instincts, hordes of unwashed with the chief aiming of maiming, pillaging and rapine, the continental rapacious huns, the inscrutable yellow races, commies and pinkos and so on and so forth, this makes the recipient of this healthy daily dosage of psyops sane and well adjusted and societal peer acceptance moulds his thinking into the grooves set by the higher powers, till the common man is frothing at the mouth and fevers to rush in with his pitchfork at the slightest hint of any deviation or ill-evocation in the modern age
this is what the cry freedom and democracy was all about, when chumps and suckers gleefully slaughtered their way through the middle east for some oil and arms benefits to the overlords, now the world is weary and ever cautious of those who raise clarion calls on areas which are not their problem, to pick up arms for a country and fight "Others", but othering cannot be accomplished now owing to the strength of the interconnected world, this is one reason which fossils in powers and think tanks cannot seem to grasp, the cultivated class and the chattel class are in a similar situation throughout the world and the caviar class is also in the similar situation throughout the world, its not exactly the tenet of communism of solidarity of the international worker, but situations and circumstances of different countries has led to an increasing polarisation of all the 3 classes globally in their own slowly-hardening silos, othering is not possible in this world
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