Soldiers with the 82nd Airborne Division boarding a bus to be taken to a flight line as they deploy to the Middle East on Jan 4, 2020 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Hashtags such as #WWIII, #WorldWarThree and #WorldWarThreeDraft all trended on Twitter after the US took out Iran’s Qassem Soleimani and announced that it was sending about 2,800 additional troops to the region – a sudden and dramatic increase in tensions. — AP
Concerns that Washington may revive the draft to fight a new war in the Middle East spiked after the US killed a top Iranian military leader in a drone strike, taking down the Selective Service System website.
Hashtags such as #WWIII, #WorldWarThree and #WorldWarThreeDraft all trended on Twitter after the US took out Iran’s Qassem Soleimani and announced that it was sending about 2,800 additional troops to the region – a sudden and dramatic increase in tensions.
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