Chrissy Houlahan, a US Congresswoman whose parents were Jewish refugees from Ukraine who is very eager to have young Americans registered for the draft. (Image source: Wikipedia)
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The House of Representatives passed a bill earlier this month that will require all men aged 18-26 to be automatically registered for conscription into the military. The bill was spearheaded by Representative Chrissy Houlahan, a Democrat from Pennsylvania whose parents came to the United States as Jewish refugees from Lviv, Ukraine in the aftermath of the Second World War. The bill doesn’t officially change government policy, as all male American citizens aged 18-26 were required to register for the draft even before this new bill was passed, and by itself may be unremarkable or merely symbolic, but the circumstances surrounding it may suggest that the US is planning to escalate the situation in Ukraine, the Middle East, and/or Taiwan. (more…)