You have a great comment. I was wondering how you would scare the kids living with a parent and this might be a good way to do it. The troop transports might need a cry closet for the trip to Ukraine.

I'm just having "fun" trying to play the comment out with the current events but here is my "scare event" based on the comment:

• Financial Collapse, unemployment rises = more recruits available
• Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), Max is 727 Mil, today 371 Mil (FYI in 2021, US used around 18 million bpd). That is not a lot.
• Due to public schools, you have uneducated and out of shape recruits
• Due to SPR, ground fighting is prioritized
• Corona Virus info is released, more enemies, maybe some foreign oil is cut off
• Low ammunition stockpiles (larger cal) due to Ukraine, reinforces ground fighting
• Something with food shortages... just sitting in the back of my mind

Everything added up equals a disaster. "You have to show them." Maybe let it play out to show how stupid people have been up until this point. I think the scare event will cover all ages, but for the younger people, this would be an insane experience. Especially if they have to see who they are going into combat with.

IMO, I think the scare event will be something at "home." But a draft would be scary too.