alphacyberranger to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agoZelenskyy fires recruitment officials for accepting $10,000 bribes to help Ukrainian men dodge the draft: 'bribery during war is treason'www.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square269fedilinkarrow-up11.48Karrow-down145
arrow-up11.43Karrow-down1external-linkZelenskyy fires recruitment officials for accepting $10,000 bribes to help Ukrainian men dodge the draft: 'bribery during war is treason'www.businessinsider.comalphacyberranger to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square269fedilink
minus-square@Kbobabob@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish-4•1 year ago The last time the US has had to use a draft for circumstances like this was the Civil War Didn’t teach history in your school? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_States
minus-square@mipadaitu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish19•edit-21 year agoYou missed the “for circumstances like this” part. There were certainly other uses of the draft for other circumstances that are looked at poorly. WWI and WWII didn’t have a direct US invasion, and we’re also looked at positively, but is out of the scope of the discussion.
Didn’t teach history in your school?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_States
You missed the “for circumstances like this” part. There were certainly other uses of the draft for other circumstances that are looked at poorly.
WWI and WWII didn’t have a direct US invasion, and we’re also looked at positively, but is out of the scope of the discussion.