{"id":21295,"date":"2023-11-26T15:39:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T15:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=21295"},"modified":"2023-11-26T15:39:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T15:39:39","slug":"overwhelming-number-of-americans-would-not-volunteer-to-fight-if-us-entered-major-conflict-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=21295","title":{"rendered":"Overwhelming Number of Americans Would Not Volunteer to Fight if US Entered Major Conflict: Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Israel, every citizen is required to serve in the Israel Defense Forces for at least a year.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past month, we have been inundated with pictures and videos of 18- and 19-year-old service members, away from their families and in harm\u2019s way to protect their country.<\/p>\n<p>As we watch the conflict in the Middle East unfold, the question arises \u2014 would Americans be ready to fight for our country if we were pulled into a major war?<\/p>\n<p>A recent poll by the research institute Echelon Insights found that 72 percent of Americans say they would not volunteer for military service in a major war, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/american-military-recruitment-problems-public-apathy-1842449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newsweek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe figures come as all branches of the armed forces have in recent years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/doesnt-anybody-want-join-bidens-military-desperate-air-force-raises-age-limit-42-recruits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struggled<\/a> to meet their recruitment targets, suggesting a growing apathy towards a career of military service,\u201d Newsweek reported.<\/p>\n<p>The poll was conducted between Oct. 23 and 26 among 1,029 likely voters. Newsweek did not provide the margin of error.<\/p>\n<p>Another recent survey found that less than half of Democrats would be willing to die for our country in the event of an invasion, and around 30 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds would rather surrender to the enemy than fight, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12589297\/Poll-die-fighting-Democrats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These shifting attitudes about duty and sacrifice do not bode well for our national security.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair \u2014 as David Eustice, CEO of Military Recruiting Experts, pointed out to Newsweek \u2014 context matters. Americans have historically rallied during conflicts with clear-cut moral purposes, like World War II after Pearl Harbor or Afghanistan after 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>But there are good reasons to believe this time is different.<\/p>\n<p>For starters, young Americans have been steeped in a culture that denigrates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/air-force-personnel-warned-attending-conservative-patriot-event-sparking-outrage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">patriotism<\/a> and fixates on the failures of our past.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, colleges have promoted the narrative that American and Western values are synonymous with racism, colonialism and oppression \u2014 and it\u2019s bearing some particularly nasty fruit.<\/p>\n<p>For example, we have recently seen some on the American left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/sign-times-leftists-now-declaring-support-osama-bin-laden-en-masse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">justify terrorism<\/a> and accuse the U.S. of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/far-left-protesters-descend-upon-white-house-target-genocide-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">genocide<\/a>\u201d for supporting Israel against Hamas. The long, messy war in Afghanistan only added to this pessimistic view of America\u2019s role in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Add to that the undeniable fact that today\u2019s generation of Americans is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/unfit-serve-obesity-epidemic-creating-recruitment-woes-national-security-risk-bidens-dei-policies-dont-help\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weaker<\/a> and more coddled than any generation before, leading ever more digital lives. Would they be able to withstand the rigors taken on by the \u201cGreatest Generation\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the U.S. military itself bears some of the blame, having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/army-uses-transgender-soldier-rachel-promote-diversity-military\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">embraced<\/a> the worst excesses of the woke left and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/us-army-finally-getting-around-dealing-vets-discharged-due-vaccine-refusal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forced<\/a> service members to serve as lab rats for the newly released COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>While the costs of war must never be minimized, a citizenry that has lost its will to fight for its nation is doomed.<\/p>\n<p>The threats multiplying globally already constitute a slow-boiling crisis, and Americans have grown flabby and simultaneously self-righteous and self-hating.<\/p>\n<p>Let us hope it doesn\u2019t take another tragedy to jolt us out of our complacency.<\/p>\n<p>This article appeared originally on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2023\/11\/overwhelming-number-americans-not-volunteer-fight-us-entered\/\">Overwhelming Number of Americans Would Not Volunteer to Fight if US Entered Major Conflict: Poll<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/\">The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Israel, every citizen is required to serve in the Israel Defense Forces for at least a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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