From the perspective of the ruling class, a draft would be an absolutely terrible idea. Many Americans do not care at all what the military does because the victims are mostly PoC foreigners, and if some American soldiers die they might care a little bit, but they chose to be there and knew the risks so it’s whatever. This apathy allows the ruling class to do whatever they want, to go on these random, decades-long invasions that leave hundreds of thousands dead, and nobody actually gives a shit at all, and the handful that do can be written off as traitors and foreign agents.

Nothing would get Americans to start paying attention and caring about foreign policy like forcing them to get involved and potentially risking their own lives. From the ruling class’s perspective, they’ve got a good thing going. They’d have to be truly desperate for manpower to fuck that up, and they’re not.

I won’t say they won’t do it because I don’t want to underestimate their stupidity. But if they do decide to start bringing people in who don’t wanna be there, away from their bread and circuses, to get front row seats to all the horrors and atrocities the media doesn’t like talking about, and give them guns and training, well, all I can say is that’s a bold strategy, Cotton, let’s see if it pays off for them.