My view is when you sign up for an army, you sign up to protect and defend your country. Not to attack and steal others. So when your country does the latter you should object and refuse to fight. Of course the US/UK armies have no real immediate history of defensive wars and protecting their country - their wars are all about conquest and domination.
As for there being no draft, there may not be in the traditional sense, but there is in a way. Todays soldiers are conscripts of poverty, low prospects, high unemployment and desperation. They are often lured by promises of the chance to better themselves - to be educated, to learn sports, to see the world. They are not lured by the prospect of going around the world dominating and killing other poor people.
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Viva Fidel
"If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism"
"North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity"
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