The article tries to frame this as a good thing.

I’d also like to see those numbers for younger age groups.

Make cheese not warships.

Yeah but that comes out of artficial political polarization and culture wars, not disgust with the class nature of the state and its imperialist project.

Ironically enough most non-US banks will not serve potential customers with US citizenship due to the excessive financial reporting requirements the US has for citizens abroad.

“Mental health team offers help” by offering affordable housing, right?

The BBC is a savvy propaganda operator which initially denies working for the British government.

I knew that citizens have to register, but I didn’t know that immigrants have to as well.

Green card holders, refugees, asylees, parolees, and undocumented men must register.

I have no words.

That is what Germany is doing, up to the limitations cfgaussian outlined.

The statement at the bottom from the war ministry says it all.

Da der Wehrdienst nach geltendem Recht ausschließlich auf Freiwilligkeit beruht, sind entsprechende Genehmigungen grundsätzlich zu erteilen. Wir werden aber durch Verwaltungsvorschriften klarstellen, dass die Genehmigung als erteilt gilt, solange der Wehrdienst freiwillig ist.

Rough translation:

Since military service is currently exclusively voluntary, permission [for longer stays abroad] will be granted. We will also create an internal policy to automatically approve all requests, as long as service is voluntary.

Champagne bubbles

US ceasefire proposals: you cease, we fire.

A German newspaper:

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/neue-wehrpflicht-regel-kaum-beachtete-aenderung-hat-weitreichende-folgen-li.10028539

Or the German law itself:

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/wehrpflg/__2.html

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/wehrpflg/__3.html

Then logically it stands to follow that German prosecutors, judges, and buerocrats are Russian bots whenever they cite German law.

At least the forced conscription bit hasn’t been hidden. The government and military were very clear all last year in saying that if there aren’t enough volunteers there will be compulsory service, and designing the law to automatically change when necessary. From there it’s not a stretch to conscript older men as well, especially those over age approx. 35 who had to participate in compulsory service before it was abolished about 15 years ago.

The fact that this change has been reported on very little, and if reported on then well after the change took effect, is very concerning.

Iran’s anti-aircraft missiles have an incredble range!

Weird limited hangout.

Securing intelligence complex backdoors once and for all.

Hopefully no Ecuadorians get caught in the crossfire between the US military invaders and the CIA/DEA drug runners.

NASA could start by building a modern rocket, not a hacky assortment of spare parts left over from the Shuttle program and designed in the 1970s. But it’s not about going to the moon, it’s about giving the military industrial complex more money.

Nobody even knows how to build the RS-25 engines anymore. There’s a handful not at the bottom of the ocean and they’re somehow supposed to take whitey to the moon.

So the US will lose the “race” it unilaterally declared. Just like the last time.