White pill: US military is behind 23% in its annual recruiting goal

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[–]NeoRail 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I have also been seeing individual US military recruiters complain about a dearth of recruits recently. It is an interesting phenomenon. If this turns out to be a long term problem, that could be a serious crisis.

[–]casparvoneverecBig tiddy respecter[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's like the late Roman Empire. Absolutely no one in the western Roman Empire wanted to join the army. They'd go as far as mutilate themselves to avoid a conscription and landowners paid huge bribes to keep their work force from conscription.

Ultimately, they had to recruit German mercenaries and we know how that ended.

This trend repeated with several other empires down the line.

The Arabs at one point stopped being warriors and hired Turkic mercenaries to fight instead. The Turks took over.

The Eygptians stopped fighting and hired slaves aka Mamelukes to fight their wars. The Mamelukes overthrew them.

The Ottoman sultans recruited Christian slave boys from balkans to be their private army, the janissaries. The Janissaries over time became the de facto ruler of the empire, killing and dethroning Sultans at will.

As one Sultan put it, "I have become a subject to my own slaves"

[–]Wrangel 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The US tried to build an army of Afghans and Iraqis, but failed miserably. Kurds are defending US oil/Israel interests in Syria and Iraq now. The fight against Russia is being fought with Ukrainians and to some extent Poles. Eastern Europeans are the last white people who actually believe in western liberalism and who are willing to fight for it. If the US ends up in a war with China expect a lot of Poles and Lithuanians to do the fighting.