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- After the Pentagon confirmed it had launched an airstrike that killed a top Iranian general, young Americans started worrying about being drafted into a potential new conflict, making "World War 3" a top Twitter trend.
- The United States has conscripted service members in five conflicts. After the Vietnam War, the draft was eliminated in 1973 and the military became totally volunteer-based.
- Even if the United States gets into a war with Iran as the result of the recent strike, it's both politically and practically improbably for the draft to be revived.
- Because popular support for military conscription is so low, legislation to re-establish a draft would be very unlikely to pass either the House of Representatives or the Senate.
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After the Pentagon confirmed it had launched an airstrike that killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, young Americans began worrying about the possibility of being drafted in a potential war stemming from the strike.
Almost immediately, searches for "World War 3" and "World War 3 draft" spiked on Google Search and became trending topics on Twitter, sparking copious memes of people imagining how they avoid being drafted into the military. It even sparked a parody account, @urfaveisdrafted, which has rapidly gained thousands of followers.
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