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Germany may introduce conscription for all 18-year-olds
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
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That is so sad, these kinds of times should already be over in humanity's history. Why doesn't anyone have a solution? Are the war mongering powers just waiting for the new nuclear deterrent? Future AI terminators pls just go straight to Russia/China/USA leadership and let the humans be
It’s because the leaders aren’t the ones fighting the battles or being targeted. They’re playing chess somewhere far from the violence.
We should just solve conflicts by throwing the presidents or monarchs of the opposing countries in an arena to fight to death.
I think it'd be better if we disregarded highly authoritarian leaders in general and embraced socialism. Back in the day, kings and emperors fought their battles, but it didn't make their feudalism any less... feudal.
Unfortunately humans are greedy so that won't ever happen.
Humans cooperated and formed large confederations long before capitalism and liberalism were ideas.
It's true that unequal and selfish organisations have often consolidated power and squashed other organisations but we've also seen humanity going the opposite way many times before.
To shrug our shoulders and say humans are inherently greedy so socialism can't work is a cop out. We've dismantled unequal power structures many times before and we can do it again
- Kat, All Quiet on the Western Front
"Sorry ole chap, turns out all those cigars didn't do Churchill any favors. Hitler took him out in under a minute.
Anyway, we heard you're gay, so here's a bullet in your ear."
Yeah, but the US has a guy in a wheelchair!
Good point, the Allies would have been in trouble. Meth head Hitler vs Stalin would have been interesting.
That would be interesting. We’d definitely have to shift who we elect towards more violent leaders tho, and idk how I feel about that haha.
What a fantastic way to ensure all world leaders are violent men
Maybe Civ 6 was too boring for them.
That’s where they practice haha
FWIW and AFAIK, the PRC doesn't have conscription (while the ROC does).
There's also conscription in places which don't attack others, because of an attack threat from a neighbor. I just hope that whatever helps humanity forward, goes to the root cause. Imperialist state oligarchs are a good start. And other billionaires