>>1483295>I would assume that you need to know something about medicine if you want to work as a doctor or a nurse on the battlefieldMaybe in the army.
If you can join some kind of conscientous observer group that can't be drafted then you can learn basic first aid and nursing skills as a volunteer and use that to help out hospitals and stuff responding to combat victims.
You may find it might be too traumatic for you to be dealing with mangled soldiers all day, but if so there is so many roles to fulfill and you can help a lot by helping haul stuff around and clean up and tend to recovering soldiers and stuff. As a young guy (I assume, apologies if wrong) with a strong back you would be a huge help to a hospital.
That being said medical staff are in danger during a war, especially combat medics attached to an army. If uou join the army as a medic you will still get basic training and may have to fire a gun or be fired upon, and I will say that your efforts will be directed towards specific military objectives, not saving as many lives as possible. That is not what an army is for.
So try and avoid getting drafted however possible for your conscience and your own safety. That is priority number one.
Priority two is secure your and your loved ones livelihood. If you are in a possible combat zone make plans with your family and possibly friends to board up your house and take your most important belongings that you can carry a long distance.
Practice together packing up and leaving so you have peace of mind and can do it quickly when and if you need to.
Thirdly is resisting the war in the first place.
You are right that you need to network with other leftists and people against the war. You should try and find such people in your own demographic in person and online-to meet in person, you should do so also with people in the "enemy" demographic.
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