Signing a contract to be the governments whipping boy is orders of magnitudes easier than getting a visa to a country that doesn’t have military intervention as it’s chief export.
Really great point, but also there are a lot of working class people who would find the cost to move abroad prohibitive, so this recruitment method works surprisingly well unfortunately.
"If the government provides college tuition and healthcare, then no one will want to (or be financially forced to) join the US military! And we can't increase the minimum wage because we desperately don't want them to have the money to move to another country!"
Things that would be said if politicians didn't hide behind lies.