>>514237989
You have not had conscription since the fucking 70's. Selective Service System is not conscription, it's an evaluation of the capability of a fighting-age male in the case conscription is actually needed.
How can you be this fucking retarded? There are 10 western countries which currently have actual conscription. All of these use conscription to train soldiers instead of using them as cheap labour, thus they are paid and do not waste their time on useless shit.
>>514238271
You did not have to pay conscripts shit under the communists. Still works like that in most authoritarian countries. That is also the biggest reason why there are basically no big military parades in Europe outside of kacapland. Shit like that costs a lot of money when you have to actually pay the soldiers, not just clothe and feed them.