Ukraine sacks army recruitment chiefs in anti-graft shakeup
www.reuters.com
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy broadened his battle against graft on Friday, firing all the heads of Ukraine's regional army recruitment centres as the war with Russia enters a critical stage.
  • maporita@unilem.org
    413·
    1 year ago

    I have the opposite view. A country at war should have the draft, and there should be no exceptions, so that the politicians who send other people’s children off to fight also have to send their own.

    Most soldiers in a “professional” army are there because their families are poor and they have few other options to make a living.

    • Echinoderm@aussie.zoneEnglish
      142·
      1 year ago

      There will always be exceptions, for example for disabilities or medical conditions. Most of those exceptions will be more accessible to wealthy or influential families that can afford to pay off doctors than poorer families.

    • GodlessCommie@lemmy.world
      32·
      1 year ago

      Politicians didn’t send their own children when there was a draft in the US. Trump AND Biden are evidence of this

      • maporita@unilem.org
        2·
        1 year ago

        Trump and Biden both avoided the draft with “1-Y” (medical) exemption. Keep in mind that more than half the 27 million eligible males were exempted or disqualified for some reason, so it’s not as if this was something only politicians did.