From the article: In the United States, individuals join the military as a way to serve their country with honor and pursue new career opportunities. But that’

From the article: In the United States, individuals join the military as a way to serve their country with honor and pursue new career opportunities. But that’s not the case in Eritrea, where men and women risk their lives and those of their families just to escape military service. Both are nation-states though, and both have governments that pass laws and then punish the masses for disobeying them. In other words, the people of both countries have rulers, and the main difference is in the rulers' degree of "benevolence" towards their subjects. You're fine with your particular government ruling over you because you think they would never do what Eritrea and North-Korea are doing. But that's how German people thought before Germany turned into a mass-murdering Nazi-Germany, so that kind of thinking is clearly misguided. Any nation-state is just a police state waiting to happen. Then it does happen, and years or decades pass until tyranny subsides, and then people go back to "it could never happen here!" How crazy is that?