I'm someone who studies history a lot.
Everything you said could be replaced with 1910-14 as the current year and you'd be pretty close to prevailing opinions of the day.
Wars need men. Well trained men ideally, but he who has the numbers usually wins.
In WW1 It took 3-6 months to churn through the professionals, in WW2 I don't recall off hand but we're looking at months. In Vietnam it did take 5 years yes, but that's not the kind of war that Europe is or should be preparing for. In Ukraine it seems likely to be around 9 months, for Russia at least (unless you're paratroopers then 3 days).
Outside of huge technological and leadership gaps you need the bigger army to win and that's why conscription is the necessary evil.
You are by no means wrong. But outside of ancapistan types, I think everyone can say the governments job is to protect it's citizens from would be invaders. With world tensions rising along with various other crisis' it's just the best move, being prepared for the worst and taking precautions.Trained vs untrained soldiers could be the difference between 500 casualties and 2500 (the infamous German school battalions of WW1 for example)
It's one of the few actual necessary evils, unless your country is on the offensive of course.
To be fair, Austin has to be not far behind LA as some of the worst. Everything in Texas is made for cars only basically.
Subsidize/pay off entirely local farmers for this year based off of 2022 earnings, ship the grain through an inland route to the Mediterranean and get it to the third world countries that need it.
Farmers aren't that large in number and don't make a ton of profit, seems like it's a bit expensive mostly in shipping but you could also be the politicians to prevent a humanitarian disaster not that far from your borders helping prevent another refugee crisis which much of Europe would riot over and could be the final boost needed for the already rising far right.
There's plenty of 2010-2015ish cars with dogshit radios that are hard to find, expensive to get or literally impossible to find good replacements for, thanks to vehicle manufacturers killing of the DIN system.
It's pretty easy to point to how he's getting his son handled in court. While a far cry from trying to overthrow the government it is corruption regardless.
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