Russia moves to a year-round military draft amid wartime manpower needs.
Russia’s lower-house State Duma passed a bill on Tuesday that would move the military toward a year-round conscription model starting next year amid the Kremlin’s efforts to expand manpower for its war in Ukraine
#Russia #Military #MilitaryDraft #WarInUkraine #Defence #Defense #Politics
https://jewishcoproject.org/2025/08/13/history-1989-statement-by-south-african-jewish-cos/
Sharing this important snapshot of Jewish history, a statement signed by 23 South African Jewish conscientious objectors during the days of apartheid.
Excerpt: NATIONAL JEWISH CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS STATEMENT.
Without coercion, influence, and of our own free will and conscience; we, individual members of the Jewish community, have adopted the following stance:
As Jews, members of a people who possess a religious tradition of social justice and who have endured a history of oppression, we have resolved not to serve in the South African Defence Force. South African society is founded on a system of racial inequality and discrimination, rejected by the majority of its people. The SADF plays a role in maintaining the universally condemned system of apartheid. We regard the system of apartheid as working against the interests of the people of South Africa and in obstructing peaceful development in the region. The SADF’s ongoing destabilisation of the Frontline states, its role in South Africa’s black townships and the general militarisation of South African society are also particularly worrying to us. Our opposition to being conscripted into the SADF is based on our Jewish identity which consists of religious, historical, and cultural elements. Jewish sensitivity and consciousness, born out of oppression in the form of ghettos, pogroms, inquisitions, expulsions and the unique suffering of the holocaust; when combined with our religious and traditional longing for a just society, demand the active pursuit of peace and the elimination of all forms of injustice and racism.
“One who has the opportunity to protest against evil and remains indifferent is deemed culpable by G-d“
(Shmot Rabba 1:2)
We see our objection to serving in the SADF as an expression of our Jewish faith and heritage, and as loyal to the majority of South Africans. We wish to make a constructive and peaceful contribution to South Africa’s future in the interests of all its people.
There are very limited options open to those opposed to conscription. We therefore call for alternatives to be made
available. We believe that non-punitive, constructive community service provides such a concrete alternative to military service. In this way, national service will become beneficial to the entire South African community.
We stand in solidarity with Jewish objectors Dave Bruce and Saul Batzofin and other imprisoned conscientious objectors and call for their immediate release.
Signed by 33 Jewish conscientious objectors, in Johannesburg and
in Cape Town. 21 September 1989.
#ConscientiousObjection #Judaism #SouthAfrica #Apartheid #Mazeldon #Peace #Shalom #ShalomSalaam #Consciption #Draft #MilitaryDraft
Ancestry: Uncovering America’s Forgotten War With Newly Digitized Korean War Draft Cards. “This expansion continues a five-year commitment by Ancestry to digitize, catalog, and make available tens of millions of NARA records to the public. This joint effort has resulted in the online publication of two million newly digitized Korean War-era draft cards, spanning the years 1948 to 1959.”
@sewblue
Hadn't previously considered reimposing a draft in terms of;
FTZWS,
Monkeywrench the system,
Power grab, &,
satisfying Putin.
It does tick all those boxes.
And it has that "Go back to the past" element too.
#Conscription & Trump match up in many ways.
US Urges Ukraine to Lower Fighting Age to 18 Amid Ongoing War Efforts #UkraineWar #USForeignPolicy #MilitaryDraft #Geopolitics #Ukraine #BreakingNews #GlobalTensions #WarEfforts #News
https://newspiler.in/us-urges-ukraine-to-lower-fighting-age-to-18-amid/
Yes, militarist think-tanks really do want to step up readiness for conscription to fight total war (not defend US): "If the US hopes to defeat a Chinese attack on Taiwan, it should be prepared to effectively implement a draft."
https://warontherocks.com/2024/08/preparing-for-the-possibility-of-a-draft-without-panic/
My analysis and rebuttal:
https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002739.html
and
Former US Army Ranger Greg Stoker talks about how decades of imperialism turned so many service members & veterans like him against the war machine.
#Bush #Obama #Trump #Biden #WarCrimes #EndlessWar #US #imperialism #Draft #MilitaryDraft
#Myanmar’s junta-ordered #MilitaryDraft has exacerbated a shortage of workers caused by the country’s #CivilWar, and the gap is being filled by minors who are vulnerable to #LaborRights violations, experts and rights groups said Friday.
The growth in #ChildLabor is an #underreported impact of the #junta’s People’s Military Service Law, enacted in February as part of a bid to shore up its forces amid heavy losses to various ethnic armies and rebel militias since its 2021 #CoupDetat.
Under the law, men between the ages of 18 and 35 and women between 18 and 27 can be drafted to serve in the armed forces for two years.
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/child-labor-ilo-military-draft-07192024145315.html
#AsianMastodon #ChildrensRights #HumanRights #ChildExploitation #Geopolitics #AllChildrensLivesMatter #AsiaNews #ChildLabour #Slavery
It seems that Donald Trump is considering drafting young people into the armed forces. Weird to hear this, when we know how Trump feels about the military and that his father did everything that he could to prevent him from being drafted during the Vietnam war. #militarydraft #DonaldTrump #militaryservice
U.S. House Passes Controversial Draft Registration Bill: What You Need to Know!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwxms158RLM
#news #politics #uspolitics #militarydraft #draft #marclamonthill
https://medium.com/@gracie.gato81/the-military-draft-is-back-a5ee970d701f the military draft is back! #war #militarydraft #nhpolitics #politics
If this doesn't answer the question of why young people should register and #vote nothing will. This is from the synopsis of Keith Olbermann's "Countdown" podcast today:
Trump has now floated reinstating the Military Draft.
He put the words in the mouth of the last of his Secretaries of Defense and that guy – Christopher Miller who sat back and watched January 6th unfold nearly as much as Trump did – dressed the draft up as “A National Service Requirement.” It seems to be targeted at 18, 19, and 20-year old American boys and girls (and maybe 17-year olds) and it would start with a mandatory military aptitude test administered BY the Pentagon IN your local high school and any kid who refused to take it might be prevented from graduating and any school that hesitated to go along with this would lose ALL federal funding.
Trump breaking precedent and using the American army domestically to suppress protests and conceivably kill civilians is not the bottom of the plan for the military-dictatorship part of his dictatorship. Those army soldiers, and marines, and whoever else, firing on other Americans – many of them or most of them or maybe all of them, would be draftees.
And when The Washington Post reported it, and the story got no traction and no pick-up at all, and even though the paper reported Trump had not expressly endorsed the draft, within six hours Trump posted an enraged denial reading “In fact, I never even thought of that idea” which even for him is a disastrously transparent non-denial denial. Of course HE never thought of that idea: when has Donald Trump ever thought anything about a military draft – except how to dodge it.
Somebody ELSE thought of that idea. The somebody else is that former Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller. The Post interviewed Miller and he said a national service requirement should be “strongly considered. He described the concept as a common “rite of passage,” one that would create a sense of “shared sacrifice” among America’s youth."
The impact this Washington Post story, could have on Trump’s campaign would be nothing short of fatal – if only it were to be handled correctly by BIDEN’S campaign:
Trump wants to reinstate the draft.
The. DRAFT.
Is there a more powerful campaign message than “Trump wants to draft your kids”? “Trump Wants To Force Your Kids To Kill Or Be Killed?” Actually there is. Because the voting age is not what it was in the ‘60s. The 18-year olds vote. There IS a more powerful campaign message and it is “Trump wants to draft YOU. Trump Wants To Force YOU to Kill or Be Killed.”
At the above link you can read the transcript or listen to the podcast in its entirety, and I strongly recommend you do. But I will just add this point:
Even if you think being a member of the military would be just swell, you have to ask yourself, do you really want to have people in your unit that don't want to be there? Some people loathe the idea of violence of any kind; some have no sense of patriotism or loyalty to a common cause, and some are physically or mentally unfit to serve (and no, not all of them get excused when there is a draft).
What happens when you put people like that in a battle situation is that your guys get killed by what is euphamistically called "friendly fire". That means you get shot by your own troops. Now why would that happen? Well let's say you order some soldiers to go in and kill everyone in a village. But there are women and children and old people there. One of your guys sees that situation and thinks to himself, "I'm not going to shoot those people; they are not combatants and they don't deserve to die. I'm going to instead shoot (or lob a grenade at) the son of a bitch that ordered me to kill them, and I'm also going to take out any guys I can that are just unthinkingly following that order." All it takes is ONE guy in a unit to think that way - and the thought may not even occur to him until the heat of battle - and you and some or all of your guys are coming home in boxes. I would be shocked if this isn't happening among the Israeli military right now, but military leaders will NEVER admit it happens because they don't want to give any other would-be shooters ideas, and because it would demoralize the troops. But it did happen in the VietNam war (it was called "fragging"), which was the last time the U.S. had a draft. In the case of a grenade there are no bullets to recover, so after the fact you have no way of knowing if it was your own troops or the enemy that threw it, and anyway not everyone has perfect aim.
Also during the VietNam war, a lot of our young men went to Canada and took up residence there. At some point many years later they were offered amnesty and the chance to repatriate but not all those eligible came back. By that time many had started new lives and families in Canada and decided to stay. I don't know if Canada would be willing to take in young Americans that don't want to be drafted again, but if they are not there are probably other countries that gladly would. A young person that speaks perferct English and knows American culture and has an American education could be quite prized in some countries that won't extradite to the USA.
Many of those young men that did not come home in coffins from VietNam were maimed in some way and still more of them to this day have severe lifelong PTSD.
Anyway, I'm just saying that if this doesn't convince young people to #VoteBlue (and also older people who were VietNam war resisters), I don't know what will. There are two things the #Democrats should work into every commercial from now until the election, and those are that #Trump is a convicted felon, and that he and his cronies want to bring back a #MilitaryDraft - and this time they want to draft young men AND women (well at least they are not sexist on THIS issue). Trump may deny it up and down because he likely knows this is the issue that can sink him with young voters, but remember that in some ways he is just a puppet, and that there are other people far worse than him that are pulling his strings!
The Polish parliament is due to consider new regulations next week that would require all #Ukrainians to show a valid #passport to be able to access benefits in #Poland. Previously, Ukrainian #refugees had been able to do so by showing any other documents proving their identity. #Ukraine
#Poland and #Lithuania pledge to help Kyiv repatriate Ukrainians subject to #MilitaryDraft
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/poland-and-lithuania-pledge-to-help-kyiv-repatriate-ukrainians-subject-to-military-draft
Young men are forced to take part in #ConscriptLottery, but the #rich often avoid serving in #army.
#Netiwit said the system was outdated, ineffective and unfairly affected the poorest, who were less well placed to find ways to avoid the draft. #Thailand #MilitaryDraft
Thai #ConscientiousObjector risks jail in rare refusal of #MilitaryService
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/21/thai-conscientious-objector-risks-jail-in-rare-refusal-of-military-service
Engraçado como quem defende o serviço militar obrigatório raramente é quem seria obrigado a tê-lo, e quem vai não obrigado podia fazer a carreira mas ainda mais raros são os que o fazem.
E se enfiassem o serviço militar obrigatório onde o sol não brilha no vosso corpo?
Funny how drafting defenders seldom are those who will be subject to it, and of those that do go through it voluntarily seldom make a career out if it.
Just shove it where no sun shines on you.
Recently learnt that #Thailand has a #MilitaryDraft for young men in place.
AIUI 50% win the lottery.
> In every poll since the Viet Nam war, reinstatement of the draft is overwhelmingly opposed by the general public, and even more so by veterans...
> Despite a 22% increase in sexual assault reports since 2015, convictions have plummeted by almost 60% in the same timeframe.
https://worldbeyondwar.org/14-points-against-draft-registration/
#WorldBeyondWar #USAdraft #USAmilitary #MilitaryDraft #SexualAssault #USAveterans #VietnamWar #InvasionOfVietnam
Kremlin expands its force
Young men must serve till thirty
Ukraine still at war
