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Neither citizenship nor military service is limited to land owners in the U.S.
by snowwrestler 2y ago
Neither citizenship nor military service is limited to land owners in the U.S.
- defrost 2y agoNor is it in the modern UK, nor was it in the pre four lions Scotland, Wales, England, or Northern or other Ireland. I'm still not seeing the American Exceptionalism here. It's not the only country in which "anyone can volunteer for military service and (again, if medically cleared) they will get trained up and added to the military" (there are many), it's not the only country that has had a draft, etc. How do these commonplace traits distinguish the U.S. in history, particulalry in light of two major world wars in which citizens of many countries took on the common responsibility of defending their own countries and partnered together in a common defense.