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> they would extract young men from their homes and make them into forced fighters Yesterday a senior German politician floated the idea of reintroducing (or,
by logifail 5y ago
> they would extract young men from their homes and make them into forced fighters
Yesterday a senior German politician floated the idea of reintroducing (or, more accurately, "reactivating") compulsory military service. It previously ran from 1956 until 2011.[0]
As someone else has already pointed out, pretty much all of this stuff can be viewed as shades of grey. Apart from the facts that war is awful, and that that despite that, certain people are happy to get rich from it.
[0] https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/killing-time-for-conscripts-german-military-service-is-battle-against-boredom-a-702665.html https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/killing-time-fo...
see also
https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/a-military-and-political-disaster-the-calamitous-errors-of-germany-s-russia-policy-a-c8b9818e-4bc2-4eb2-ac55-39e5790b29b2 https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/a-military-and-...
- treis 5y agoPlease explain the shades of grey in executing a woman for getting raped by two men
- kodah 5y ago"Compulsory military service" is not even in the same vicinity as being dragged out of your home at gunpoint and being told to fight or your family dies. Also worth pointing out what the Taliban has been condemned for in the last decade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban#Condemned_practices https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban#Condemned_practices I forgot they also conscript children.