Nah, this is based.

💪Citizen Soldier Time 💪

By making it about mandatory training (presumably in small blocks) instead of enslaving your citizens into the army for a couple years of their life you’re actually promoting liberty and demystifying military service while making your nation harder to invade. You also just naturally have an out for pacifists and other noncombatants, the training doesn’t necessarily have to be martial, logistics arguably matter more.

This is literally one of the founding premises of a classical Republic, that all citizens are responsible for defending each other. Not that their definition of citizen was particularly open or perfect, but still.

Assuming they’re telling the truth about how they’re going to handle it, anyways.

Obviously it’d be better if they had an anarchist revolution and smashed the state, but guess what everyone needs to be doing to protect their society if they do that?