What would happen if the PM enforces an automatic draft register in Australia towards all adult male citizens?
We’d tell him to get fucked, mate. And just for emphasis, we’d add, “Yeah, nah” before it.
Realistically, it would doom any political party that introduced it to the political wilderness, particularly nowadays.
‘For King and Country’ doesn’t wash anymore, so very few people here would approve our sons and daughters being sent off as cannon fodder for Charlie.
Nor does running to defend our ‘greatest ally’, given how Trump has been jamming his dick in our ears, demanding we like it, and getting shitty at us when he finds out we don’t.
I can’t think of a war we’ve been involved in since WWII where we rushed off to help GB or the US to counter an invasion force, to defend our shores (or those of our allies). Since then, the reasons have been dubious - even outright fraudulent - like ‘they have weapons of mass destruction!’
Previous generations have experienced things they don’t want their children and grandchildren and great grandchildren to experience. Us common folk now also have more access to footage of what happens in wars. And access to information showing how poorly treated veterans of war are treated by western governments when (if) they return.
So … yeah, nah.
No, no. Trump already added Iran to the list of wars he stopped. Time to move on.
Leaving wrecked lives in his wake.
As is tradition, really.