The Old Are Volunteering The Young For War (Martin Armstrong of Armstrong Economics)

The young are not cowards for rejecting conscription, nor do elderly voters become courageous by supporting it. Courage means accepting danger yourself; hypocrisy means assigning that danger to someone else. Until the loudest advocates of war are willing to stand at the front of the recruitment line, their demands for sacrifice are merely the politics of cowardice dressed in the flag. For the rest of the must read article: https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/the-old-are-volunteering-the-young-for-war/