Wokeness infests colleges.Yup, I served in the Navy, I served with several gay enlisted men.
Not a single one of them considered themselves members of the LGBTQ+ alphabet mafia.
But the Officers, gay or not, were all woke dingbats bar a very few exceptions.
Outbreak of piracy leading to the need for a drastic increase in Navy personnel to crew convoys. There's only so many people who will volunteer themselves a worse livelyhood for everyone else's bottom line, no matter how obvious it is, so long as it stays in the abstraction of the cost of goods.
It isn't a matter of needing boots on the ground to kick people's doors in and hold streetcorners, but of having enough hulls in the water to have a hope in Hell of watching out for the fuckhuge container ships.
Or, you know, you could relocate manufacturing back to the American rust belt so you didn't have to ship products halfway around the planet leaving them vulnerable to theft by pirates and we could have well-paying jobs available again? Besides piracy anyway?...that seems unlikely, particularly given that interdicting pirates is much easier to do from the air, rather than the sea, and drones means larges areas can be continuously monitored.
And if the pirates have enough weaponry to take down drones and aircraft interdiction, then they also have a state sponsor, and we are back to more proxy-war bullshit.
Yeah, we laugh at river piracy now, but the original robber barons started off as not all that legitimate toll collectors on the river Rhine, and the Vikings made extensive use of river systems to do their plundering and trading, and it was a big deal among the Cossacks and the various Rus successor states, too...
Also, that performer reminds me of the porn star Belladonna, older and plumper.
The Ohio used to have river pirates! My first grade school had pirates as a mascot because we had Cave-in-Rock in the area and it was a river pirate hidey-hole.One of the biggest accomplishments of the early america republican republic was crushing all of the piracy on the miss.
Can either of you present a realistic scenario where a conflict justifies a draft in the US, that doesn't involve conflicts with peer/near-peer nuclear powers?
Iraq was not a 'war', it was a series of 'operations', and you need a war declaration before you can justify a draft; Congress would not give Bush a 'war declaration' over Iraq specifically because the evidence used to justify that invasion was so flimsy. We didn't go there to 'colonize' either, which is part of why no one tried to push a draft for Iraq.An Iraq war done properly. Iraq had a population of 40 million. By the standard rule of thumb of 1 soldier to 40 civilians, the occupation force should have been roughly 1 million. Instead total occupation force, including non-Iraqi allies was closer to 200k.
If Mexico actually became a failed state and needed some "stabilizing" occupation was necesary, Mexico has roughly 130 million people so a full occupation would be roughly 3.25 million soldiers. A thinner dunbars number occupation of one soldier to 150 civilians would be a force of 860,000.
Both of these are theoretically fillable with the current forces, but other needs would make keeping such a force without conscription very difficult. Colonial occupations done properly require lots of bodies.
Plus of course keeping a large enough force that rebellion against the US remains inconceivable. The US needs to be large enough that the US miliary will win any plausible escalation ladder against domestic opponents. Otherwise people might shoot more FBI officers.
Iraq was not a 'war', it was a series of 'operations', and you need a war declaration before you can justify a draft; Congress would not give Bush a 'war declaration' over Iraq specifically because the evidence used to justify that invasion was so flimsy. We didn't go there to 'colonize' either, which is part of why no one tried to push a draft for Iraq.
As for the 'stabilizing/colonizing Mexico' scenario...maybe, but that scenario is effectively the US annexing Mexico, which is a whole other can of worms for reasons far beyond the draft. I also really don't think the 'stabilize/annex Mexico' scenario is one that will ever happen, either; we didn't annex Mexico during the Pershing Expedition or Tampico Incident, after all, and would have been far more justified and able to swing it domestically at that time.
Bureaucracy + safetyism + some idiot somewhere did something stupid with a toaster.The problem isn't necessarily a toaster, but what if everyone brought in toasters and small appliances?
Not sure what living conditions are like where they are, but I could see this being an issue.
The problem isn't necessarily a toaster, but what if everyone brought in toasters and small appliances?
Not sure what living conditions are like where they are, but I could see this being an issue.
The only good thing about the latest US military recruitment ad, the Calling, is that Emma and her two moms have become a meme.So much the better for whenever the (seemingly inevitable at this point) collapse of modernity hits and the bloody revolt against the Leftoid globalist degenerates kicks in.