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Fiendish Thingy

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7. There will be no draft

Reply to groundloop (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2026, 07:39 PM

23 hrs ago

Trump is stupid, but I don’t see him ordering deactivation of the draft, and I don’t expect Hegseth or anyone else to advise him to.

If he is stupid enough to order boots on the ground, he will do what was done in Iraq- Stop Loss the troops, extending their tours and not rotating them out after a period of time,

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