Mercy, perish the thought. But even if they pulled something like that, who would they draft without encountering stiff resistance - I don't think the Ukraine flag-wavers are as numerous as they've been presented to be - and how long before they got them trained enough and what would they send them into battle with, and how would they get them there without having the ships carrying them and any equipment destroyed by Russian submarines? Because if all those things came to pass they would be clear signs the US was openly at war with Russia and all bets would be off. The government has been squandering the public's trust for decades now and spent the last few years destroying their lives and livelihoods; I think (and hope) there's limits beyond which even blue-check liberals ain't willing to go.

BTW, I was just reading this piece by Andrew Cockburn that shows what an unholy mess the military is, including this tidbit:

the U.S. Air Force is abandoning its traditional role of protecting and coordinating with troops on the ground, otherwise known as Close Air Support, or CAS. Given its time-honored record of bombing campaigns that had little or no effect on the course of wars, CAS has probably been the only useful function (grudgingly) performed by the service.