• MagicShel@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    Yeah obviously there are differences between 1933 Germany and 2025 USA, but it still takes time to do everything. Our hegemony is deteriorating, and the way I see it that’s more important for global reaction speed than internal change speed.

    No one currently gives enough of a shit about owning Greenland to want to invade it. The draft is key and I don’t think you’ll see that until after the mid-terms due to the backlash. That would put us right on the above pace.

    But this is all really speculative and I don’t have any particular insight or educational focus on Nazi Germany. I just grew up in the wake of it, my grandfather having fought in the pacific theater.

    There are certainly better prognosticators than me to listen to, but at the end of the day it’s all guesswork.

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      13 hours ago

      our system has created enough mass desperation for force people to chose military service rather than living a future of destitution and that guarantees that we will never have another draft.

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        12 hours ago

        There is currently a recruiting crisis in 3/4 of the branches. A draft will be absolutely necessary to go to war.

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          12 hours ago

          oic, you’re thinking that ww3 will need to happen for the united states to take over, but the united states is already in charge and the only ww3 we might have is w china.