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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe will need a draft if we are going to move on Russia and don't count on the EU for boots
on the ground. Some career Marines are on their 6th tour in combat zones.
Also going across Canada would be one hell of an invasion route.
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We will need a draft if we are going to move on Russia and don't count on the EU for boots (Original Post)
CK_John
Mar 2014
OP
... if we move on Russia, the EU will be completely involved because it will be ww3.
1awake
Mar 2014
#2
If we're stupid enough to go to war with Russia, and reinstall the draft to do it...
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2014
#12
Invade Russia via Canada? Why not invade via Alaska, since you can see Russia from there.
FarCenter
Mar 2014
#14
PANIC!!!!!!!!!
1awake
(1,494 posts)2. ... if we move on Russia, the EU will be completely involved because it will be ww3.
Don't even give thoughts like that energy.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)3. Besides, the Germans and French have experience invading Russia
exboyfil
(17,862 posts)4. They can go first
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)5. You Fell Victim to one of the Classic Blunders!
Cleita
(75,480 posts)7. But if ignoring history and doing what was so fatal before is an
indication of how we act, we just might do it unless we really learned our Afghanistan lesson.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)8. But, honey, I've changed my ways and I'm not like that anymore
I promise!
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)9. ICBM's don't need a draft.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)13. Ooh! We can use those!
That'll end well...
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)15. Calling Dr Strangelove ...Dr Strangelove ...wanted at the ICBM launch pad.
No I am not calling for nuke war but ...there was a reason for the MAD doctrine.
malaise
(268,717 posts)10. Huh?
Why do folks discuss war as if it's some routine event.
I mean WTFF??
Rex
(65,616 posts)11. Why are you fantasizing about WW3? Just bored?
IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. EOM.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)12. If we're stupid enough to go to war with Russia, and reinstall the draft to do it...
there will be an invasion of Canada but not by our military.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)14. Invade Russia via Canada? Why not invade via Alaska, since you can see Russia from there.
CK_John
(10,005 posts)16. Alaska doesn't have the infrastructure for an invasion force.