Our armed forces has difficulty recruiting people who WANT to join, let alone recruiting people who don't want to join a war.

I'm not that surprised. Supplying the Ukraine War has shown that most NATO countries do not have the ability to contribute with any meaningful industrial capacity. Fixing this would require a lot of supply chain building.

Go ahead, draft me. Thanks to the lack of availability of family doctors I have a number of chronic health issues! At best you pile 300 other guys like me up to block a road.

How do you think the unthinkable?

With an itheberg.

• Mike Tyson (probably)

It's important to remember that while this is escalation it isn't necessarily the prelude to a war - mobilization is often used to avert combat and entice parties back to the negotiating table.

If Article 5 is invoked, Russia ceases to exist overnight.

The evening of the first day Russia fucks up, the US demonstrates why Americans don't have healthcare. It swoops in with a couple dozen stealth fighters, eliminates air-defence, decapitates the entire chain of command, then levels every military and military-adjacent structure from west to east and east to west and south to north at the same time. I sincerely doubt a single American life would be lost.

By morning, there's nothing of consequence left, and regular NATO fighters have control of the skies, taking out leftover smaller targets and industrial infrastructure... and that's it, game over.

It would suck ass to have to defend my own life against a country I didn't choose to be born in for trying to force me to fight people whom I don't want to fight with.

Send the fuking millionaires and billionaires...