Will you play Battlefield 2025?

[shovelquest]

i know nazi germany didn't conscript kids and the elderly till the very end iirc, there's numerous reasons they send young men off to begin with instead of 30+ yr olds and unlike "the kids" we have a proven track record of being managable and well behaved and we actually know shit so they might need us

You may not understand. I'm not talking about 12-14 year olds like the "kids", and I'm not talking about 75+ year old "elderly".

Ukraine conscripted 27-60 year olds first. And increased it to 25-65 year olds recently.

From 1935, Germany’s Military Service Law put boys through 6 months of labor service at 18, then two years of military service starting at 19. That means the typical new private in 1938 was about 19–21, while conscription legally ran up to about 40

Originally Posted by Ekco [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

that's eastern europe for ya

Ahctually it is unusual for "eastern Europe":

It is a progressive western idea to ensure the future generations have something to live for direct from the good ol us of a:

"Ukrainian officials should ensure they protect the youngest men to avoid further demographic decimation and help rebuild the country after the war.”
-U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...ce=chatgpt.com

It's ahcthually the opposite of "Eastern European" tradition:

historically, Eastern European armies tended to conscript younger men compared to Western Europe, especially during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

In empires like Russia, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire, mandatory service usually began in the late teens to early 20s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscr...ce=chatgpt.com

[Ekco]

ask ai about population pyarmids and the difference between a county with 350 million people and 40 million people.

they pulled from the only demo they had, which was basically everybody

well 2 million of the 8 mil conscription age men it says
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[shovelquest]

Originally Posted by Ekco [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

ask ai about population pyarmids and the difference between a county with 350 million people and 40 million people.

Ok, then ask it "what do if we're going to war with a country that has 1.5 billion people?"

[Ekco]

yeah it's isolation + threatening to blow up the world and both sides have racist bio weapons of the other i imagine so it's just gonna be us ceding ground and falling back to our own local sphere of influence instead of sabre rattling about defending an island they claim is theirs on the other side of the planet.

[shovelquest]

Idk what that means.

Im just trying to inform you that, now the prime age for conscription is 30-50.

Lucky for you I am sure you have a decent job that will keep you out of the first wave.

Hopefully student loan forgiveness is offered to all conscripts so we can hope for the best before that age demo you're in is scooped up.

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[Ekco]

Conclusion on Likelihood
While the potential for conflict exists—especially over Taiwan or an accidental escalation—the majority of analysts, and a significant portion of the US public, believe a full-scale war is possible but not likely (Source: CSIS polling). The costs are simply too high for both nuclear-armed powers to make it a rational decision.

As your technical partner, I'd frame it this way: The system has multiple circuit breakers (economic ties, nuclear deterrents) designed to prevent catastrophic failure, but the pressure (trade, Taiwan, regional military action) is clearly increasing, which puts strain on those mechanisms. It's a high-stakes risk management problem, not an inevitable disaster—at least not yet.

[Ekco]

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Idk what that means.

we can kill every chinese person on planet earth and they could kill every non chinese person on the world without firing a single shot, it's nuclear M.A.D but scarier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_bioweapon

[shovelquest]

"costs are too high"

Also:

"every country in the world is going bankrupt paying for the poorest people within them"

Originally Posted by Ekco [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

we can kill every chinese person on planet earth and they could kill every non chinese person on the world without firing a single shot, it's nuclear M.A.D but scarier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_bioweapon

Covid?

[Ekco]

yeah you can go anywhere with the conspiracy you want, it most assuredly being worked on now or was already developed years ago

In May 2007, it was reported that the Russian government banned all exports of human biosamples.[6] The reason for the ban was allegedly a report by the head of FSB Nikolay Patrushev presented to Vladimir Putin. The report claimed about on-going development of "genetic bioweapons" targeting Russian population by Western institutions.

Putin freaked about it in 2007, so whatever Dues Ex Gray Death type plot you wanna run with is prolly pretty close to the target.

Originally Posted by shovelquest [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"costs are too high"

we prolly got shit that could eradicate rice and wheat and other shit also, 1. something billion people is a lot to feed and we got a shit load of cheese in caves.

U.S. Government currently stores 1.4 billion lbs of cheese

we're Americans, don't fuck with us.

[shovelquest]

Bro, all I said is that prime age for conscripts was 27-60 and gen X gamers are prime targets.

Do rods of god exist? Idk maybe. Sure.