More power to them, nobody should be forced to fight a war.
this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2023
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Yeah Russia should let their people go...
How would countries defend themselves when invaded? Volunteers?
You’ve never heard of partisans? Voluntary military association? America is an all volunteer army and will be so for the next forever.
Uhhhhh no if it comes to it America will draft it’s men without hesitation
It’ll never come down to it is the point. An all volunteer army is so much more effective that America has, by far, the most powerful military but it’s not close to the largest. Very little, if anything, is actually gained by conscription if you have a functioning volunteer force of sufficient size. How is feeding, clothing, housing, training and equipping a ton of people who don’t want to be there logistically beneficial to a military? Short answer is that it’s not.
The US had a draft 50 years ago for a war on the other side of the planet. Have countries successfully defend themselves against invasion with volunteer forces?
I like the ideal but I live in a shitty cold world where sometimes you have to defend yourself, so I wonder how that would actually work.
FYI I didn't ~~forgot~~downvote ya
Countries only exist as far as their constituency believes in them. If they can’t drum up enough of an army to defend themselves voluntarily, then they obviously haven’t done enough for that constituency that they see a threat to the nation as a threat to themselves. You ever wonder why guerrillas rarely run out of fighters or supplies? They inspire the people. They do things for the people, instead of to them. They don’t use war as an excuse to strip rights or privatize public infrastructure, they don’t put you in prison for not wanting to fight. They fight for you, and in taking direct, tangible material actions that help the people, they ensure their continued usefulness to, and thus support by, the people.
Why anyone would fight for a modern nation state in any situation is beyond me.
Yeah, for the next forever or until is needed AGAIN. Military service is same as paying taxes. Country provides you protection, services and infrastructure but not for free. If you disagree you're free to go live in Somalia.
Whats wrong with living in Somalia?
Nothing, it's great. Please move there.
Yes, beautiful. Did you buy your tickets yet?
"Country provides you protection, services and infrastructure [...]" Isn't this what people everywhere want? Also in Somalia? You are promoting the exact opposite with your "nessesary war" ("taxes" as you call it - a simple "expense").
Yes, people and Somalia also want protection and services. What's your point? Who's talking about "necessary war"?
Go fight in the military or go die in a war torn (exploited) country - sounds familiar?
No, not really. What are you talking about?
" If you disagree you're free to go live in Somalia. " yes, whoever made this statement seems to know what they are talking about...
Hey are you still here.. You are behind commenting schedule (NAFO called...). It has been more than 12 min after your last comment. You are below your own average (assuming you sleep/are inactive for 8 hours). Get of the web. Touch grass!
They should be executed for Treason. Traitors all of them! Slava Ukraini
Not really funny
It’s the typical Hexbear experience. You should be family with how shit the community is being part of it yourself.
To be fair - two comrads from hexbear called them out. This does not happen with all the warmongering liberals on other sites/instances. I am happy hexbear is here! Also, I think it was a failed attempt to be sarcastic.
One called them our, the other basically said “shh don’t do it publicly”.
Also are you fucking kidding me? Hexbear are warmongering authies.
Did you ever browse hexbear? I never saw a video of war footage with comments cheering on the death of the "other team" on hexbear ... unlike the numerous posts on reddit, sopuli.xyz, lemmy.world, etc.
I did. Explicitly cheering for Ukrainian deaths or not, they support the invasion, which means they support murdering Ukrainians by default. You can't have it both ways, if you support Russia, you support the murder of Ukrainians.
Ah yes - the good old "default". You seem full of prejudice. It is a big difference to be against the expansion of imperialism and nato, against the suffering of workers versus cheering on weapon deliveries and death. You are wrong - you can have it both ways. There is no good side in this war. Both are corrupt oligarchies full of caucasian (orthodox) christians that seem to like to plunder workers and lands. Sprinkle some of US geopolitics on it and you get what we currently have: we, the majority of the population, pays the price through inflation and death.
Honestly, watching the hate between hexbear and other communities is fun.
watching liberals lose their minds when confronted with different views is indeed hilarious
Let the libs make this point, Comrade, you don't need to do it for them