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[–] altrent2003@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 year ago (7 children)
[–] elscallr@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

A volunteer force. It's not up to a president to tell people what they're willing to fight for.

[–] altrent2003@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You must be joking? How does a volunteer force work when dictators forcibly recruit whole armies and march into your country? Living in a democracy where you can comfortably post your thoughts on the web requires sacrifices. If we were to count on volunteers to fight wars there would be no free world to live in. And we would probably all be speaking German today.

[–] stealin@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

You assume Germans all willfully signed up but also assume they only had one reason.

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