They are always ready to kill your kids in defense of their interests. Them and their kids? Not so much.
I learned to my surprise in WWI the officers had some of the highest casualty rates. I struggled a bit to find the reference just now, but here is something along those lines:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/06/first-world-war-roll-call-senior-officers-killed-ranks
I don’t know about now, but at least at one point in the British imperial past the upper classes shed blood with the poors.
Yeah, I guarantee 500% that this is one of the many things that were different over a century ago than they are now.
Can’t we just take all of the sociopaths from the banking industry and stick them on the front line?
As long as we put the health insurance execs, the pharma execs and the big ag execs right there with them.
Or just pay them all enough that people join.
No volunteer army will ever be able to fight a war with Moscow. We don’t need conscription now, but we need to be aware that we might need in 5-15 years time and be prepared.
No volunteer army will ever be able to fight a war with Moscow.
Bullshit. Russia’s military is stretched thin and its economy in tatters to the point that it won’t recover in decades “just” from fighting Ukraine+a shitload of material assistance and sanctions from the West.
If it ever comes to direct war between Russia and the West, especially if that’s during the next few decades, the current forces of the West will absolutely annihilate Russia WITHOUT having to force the unwilling to kill and get killed.
Unless of course Putin snaps and uses nuclear weapons, in which case there won’t be people alive to conscript.
Noble class first.
That is the basis of nobility, is it not?
The king can lead the charge. Give him a horse and a sword like the good old days.
I’d love to see that wizened old cunt try to mount a horse wearing a full set of plate or chain mail like the kings of yore wore to battle 😂
There is of course another option, which is to fully arm, equip, and support Ukraine, now.
They can and will win with sufficient support, and its a far better investment than waiting for things to get far worse (and far more expensive).
Money spent supporting Ukraine now, getting them to victory, represents a material savings over having to further spend later to fix the mistakes we’ve made in failing to fully support Ukraine up until now.
This is a horrible time in history to be a pacifist 😮💨