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Over 85 Targets Hit In U.S. Retaliation Strikes Against Iranian Proxies, IRGC

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So, do we get to start calling what's happening everywhere world war 3 or is there like some committee that meets on this?
- Once some major players start conscripting people I think it'd be reasonable to call it WW3. This is the preamble
  
  Hasn't russia been conscripting for a couple of years now?
  
  major players
  
  Well it did say major players, plural. If you have major players directly in opposition and both feeling the need for conscription...
  
  I don't see any draft in the US happening right now...
  
  Why would you say that? They aren't conscripting at all. There's not even a whiff of anyone suggesting we need to activate the draft.
  Conscription refers to involuntary military service, and there hasn't been a hint of that since Vietnam (it worked out sooo well in Vietnam, with a crazy high incidence of soldiers killing their own superiors).
  Even in voluntary service, recruiting is way less aggressive than it used to be. Growing up in the 80s/early 90s you were inundated with recruiting efforts, on radio, television, and even as a pretty aggressive part of school. My kid has not been nearly so exposed to recruiting efforts. Now we have a third of people going in compared to 1990 (and they are still turning down about 25% of applicants).
  So I don't know where you are coming from, but involuntary service in US isn't vaguely in sight and even if you mistook voluntary service for 'conscripts', even that is at a 40 year low and still turning away people... Hardly seems 'deseperate'
  
  You don't think Russia is a major player in this current shitshow? Or was it an attempt to belittle Russia?
  I'm assuming its the latter because otherwise you're a dense motherfucker
  
  Conscripting and openly killing one another* as in us on russia or china type shit would be more fair I guess haha
- It's a world war only when western european countries are involved. Otherwise it's just sparkling conflict.
  
  TBF, we aren't even remotely close to the scale of international conflict seen in the 2 world wars. You have to be deeply ignorant to think otherwise. Again, we're not even close, not even like a tiny fraction in terms of scale.
- It's not a war until the other side is able to fight back.
- It's never a world war until it's over and the dust settles on the graves of millions around the globe.

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