All western countries are telling their youth - one way or another - are doing it, in the wake of Russia's militarization. As for the US asking their citizens to join the army, it became a meme of some sort due to how frequent it happens to be, but other countries, save for a couple of them, are not better. Russia has had many spots and I watched one of them. It's exactly as you imagine that. Very glorious and macho. Comically so. But you know wars aren't like that.

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"We cannot convey alternative viewpoints to the students. So this textbook will assist you in addressing children's questions and providing accurate coverage of certain events."

Holy moly this 1984's style of speech, if you read the book you know what I'm mentioning here. Anyway, doing shrooms will give you a better insight than that piece of propaganda.