After decades of believing I was a pacifist, I've been finding myself changing my position for a number of years. Maybe because I've been reading/writing a little about WW2 resistance to Hitler. Iraq was a godawful mistake that should never have happened (and I thought as much back then), but getting rid of the Taliban wasn't. During Vietnam, I was a hawk that turned pacifist as the war continued. I'm a woman, so the draft back then was never an issue for me. And I was glad the US got rid of it. But, as you said, times have changed. Americans did grow weak (woke culture is one example and both sides do it!), so weak that a fake man like Trump could take over, and is still in control of his party. Now, I find myself on the side of re-instituting the draft for military or something like Peace Corps service, as other countries do for men AND women. Are there problems in the military? God, yes. But if the politicians insist on starting wars and refusing to have Americans pay for it (in taxes, blood, commitment, sacrifice of any kind - the horror of our gas going up because the oil companies want to gouge us, so do something!) How many of you think our current population would be fighting as the Ukrainians are doing? Remember, a few weeks ago, Kiev and the other cities were no different from OUR cities. MAGAs complain about BLM and riots - but Russia invading the Ukraine - they shrug.