Neato

Kbin knows the article is totally fucked and just trying to insert a little bit of brightness to combat the existential dread.

Good AI.

For defense? No. For extermination? Also no but it makes it more deniable.

Correction: you can no longer drink the water.

It’s to prevent nuclear war. If everyone voted to invade or harshly punish a powerful country they could respond.

I agree.

Most fresh grads just want to make enough of a living wage to one day afford a house. Morals can be fucking expensive.

Better it goes into government so at least people can vote to change it. If billionaires hold it they will just use it to influence the government and hoard wealth.

All it really boils down to is that the UN is toothless when trying to regulate any nuclear-armed country and any country or conflict a nuclear-armed country has an interest in. It absolutely sets certain countries apart in a multi-tiered system of international cooperation.

and the state has refuted claims it violated federal law and international treaties when it set up the floating barriers without permission from the Biden administration or Mexico. (Article continues)

That’s the clincher. States are 100% not allowed to treat internationally or make policies regarding other countries.

It’s not really how we fight anymore. Buuuut if you want to see protests to rival the 70s, try doing a general draft again.

The US Military will never do another draft. The issue with the draft is that it instantly galvanizes opinions of every single American. Right now with a volunteer army, most Americans don’t have an immediate family member that’s deployed abroad. But if you institute the draft, they will.

Everyone will have a brother, husband, son, father, uncle, cousin, nephew, etc that has been drafted. And there’s really nothing like a close personal connection to drive people to be upset and show it publicly. An unpopular war would become an impossible war very fast with the near-instantaneous speed of communication the internet allows. It would allow angry people to organize in very large groups very fast. The protests would be massive and unending.