{"id":2107759,"date":"2023-11-25T18:46:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T23:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/overwhelming-number-of-americans-would-not-volunteer-to-fight-if-us-entered-major-conflict-poll\/"},"modified":"2023-11-25T18:48:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T23:48:35","slug":"overwhelming-number-of-americans-would-not-volunteer-to-fight-if-us-entered-major-conflict-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/overwhelming-number-of-americans-would-not-volunteer-to-fight-if-us-entered-major-conflict-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Overwhelming Number of Americans Would Not Volunteer to Fight if US Entered Major Conflict: Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foverwhelming-number-of-americans-would-not-volunteer-to-fight-if-us-entered-major-conflict-poll%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2107759&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Would Americans Be Ready to Fight \u200dfor Our Country?<\/h2>\n<p>In Israel, every citizen is required to serve in the Israel \u200dDefense Forces for at least \u200ba 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\u200d 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 <strong>72 \u2063percent of Americans say they would not volunteer for military service in a major war<\/strong>, according\u200d to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/american-military-recruitment-problems-public-apathy-1842449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newsweek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The figures come\u2063 as all branches of the armed forces have \u2063in recent years\u2062 <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 \u2064growing \u2064apathy towards a career of military service<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/minority-employees-at-state-department-oppose-diversity-plan\/\" title=\"Minority Employees at State Department Oppose Diversity Plan\">recent survey found<\/a> that less than half of Democrats\u200b would be willing to die for our country in the event of an invasion, and around\u200c 30 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds would rather surrender to the enemy than fight, according \u200cto 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 \u200dand 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 \u200bNewsweek \u2014 context matters. Americans have historically rallied during conflicts with clear-cut moral\u2063 purposes, like \u200dWorld War II after Pearl Harbor\u2064 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\u2063 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 \u2062values are synonymous with racism, colonialism \u200dand 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 \u200baccuse 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\u200d Israel against Hamas. The\u2062 long, messy \u200bwar 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\u200c 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 \u200dmore \u2062coddled than any\u200d generation before, leading ever more digital lives. \u200dWould 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 \u2062the blame, \u2062having <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 \u200cwoke left\u2064 and \u200c <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\u2063 to serve as lab rats for the newly \u2064released COVID-19\u200b vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>While the costs of war must never be minimized,\u200b a citizenry that \u2062has lost its will to fight for its nation is doomed.<\/p>\n<p>The threats multiplying globally already constitute a\u200d slow-boiling \u200ccrisis, 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<hr>\n<div class=\"author_subscription_pitch\">.author_subscription_pitch p{margin:5px;}<\/p>\n<p><em><b>A\u200b Note from\u200c Our Staff:<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Did you \u200bknow that \u200b90 \u200dpercent of advertisers will have nothing to\u200b do with The Western Journal?\u200b The liberal elites have put us \u2062on one\u2062 of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/people-see-wholesome-overseas-mcdonalds-ad-realize-what-the-companys-doing-here\/\" title=\"Overseas McDonald's ad reveals company's true intentions\">financial kill lists<\/a>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They did it because we\u2019ve told the truth and spoken out against them for over a decade. 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Your subscription to The Western Journal will\u200c help us continue to provide independent, conservative news and analysis, while also\u200b \u2062fighting back against the liberal media bias.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you value the work we do and believe \u200din a free and fair\u2064 press, \u2062we urge you to consider subscribing today. Together, we can \u2064keep the \u200dtruth alive.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>  In what \u200bways does subscribing to The Western Journal help in \u2062the fight against liberal media bias?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Subscribing\u2063 to The Western Journal can \u2062help in the fight against liberal media bias in several ways:<\/p>\n<p>1. 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Balanced reporting: The Western Journal aims to provide balanced reporting, presenting facts and viewpoints in a fair manner. Subscribers can rely on this balanced approach to \u2062receive news without\u2064 the\u200c often-perceived liberal bias present in mainstream media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>4. Combatting media echo chambers: Subscribing to The Western Journal helps to break free from the potential\u200c echo chamber effect created by consuming news from \u200ba\u2064 single ideological perspective. It encourages individuals to engage with a wider range of opinions, fostering critical thinking and a \u200dmore nuanced understanding of \u200bcomplex issues.<\/p>\n<p>5. Supporting alternative media: By subscribing to The Western Journal, individuals support \u2062an independent and alternative media platform. 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