Zelensky signed several laws on mobilization on April 2, one of which lowered the minimum age of compulsory military service from 27 to 25, making men eligible for the draft from age 25.
The current draft age in the USA is 18-25.
In fairness, the US isn’t drafting people, let alone consigning draftees to certain death like Zelensky here is doing. It’s probably my prejudice from the US draft age, but I’m surprised the minimum is so high still in Ukraine considering how desperate they are to field more men.
Obviously the US consigns plenty of people to certain death, but not by drafting them.
I was just kind of shocked that their conscription age was so high considering the US draft age ends at their new low end. When I first read the headline I assumed they were going to start drafting 16 year olds.
Me too, but I’d guess that it’s because Ukraine is a somewhat younger country, since the US stopped using the draft in '73, about two decades before the current Ukrainian government was established, so they are operating on very different standards. Just a guess, though.
WW2 left the Soviet Union without a generation of men which led to all kinds of problems after the war. It’s a lesson hard learnt. Your men need to breed before they go to war and die. Ukraine knows this and hence they keep the draft age higher.
Their demographics are fucked and the largest group of men are middle aged. Weird population age densities were caused by all the bad living in the 90’s.
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Can we please stop making people fight if they don’t want to?
I recommend we force our leaders to fight to the death since they believe in the war so much and think its so necessary.
I’m sure Zelensky would agree in a heartbeat to defend Ukraine in a 1v1. But getting the coward Putin to do that? No way in hell that’d happen
props to @EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net
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Jesus fucking christ
He could scoop random people off the street to die for a doomed war and you mfers would still support him.
He lowered the minimum age from 27 to 25. What a monster.
It’s not like his country is at war or at risk of being invaded by one of the world’s biggest military power or anything, right?
How long will it take before the age ratchets down again? And then further? And then further? I give it another two years-- if those nazis can even last that long-- before Zelensky’s pushing teenagers into the meat grinder. And he won’t think twice. The people controlling him would do for him the same way if he did.
Careful, might slip down that slope.
Giving fascists any kind of leeway in the first place is exactly how you get genocides. The kinds of things you people just can’t get enough of til you get the receipt for it.
Ah yes, the perfectly straightline route from lowering conscription age (to an unreasonable 25 years !!!1!1!111) to genocide. No slopes involved.
Okay, you’re being deliberately dense considering Ukraine’s already committed two verifiable genocides(Donetsk, Luhansk)-- which makes you a denier at best and a collaborator at worst; so get out my inbox thanks
The genocidal act of checks notes defending your country against a foreign invader.
If only we had an international institution to deal with such claims 🧐.
I wish all draft supporters a very die in a war they don’t agree with
As an ill-informed critic, this explains how evil Zelenskyy is for sending children to war
So many people being “wooshed” by this comment
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As a bot spotter this is a totally legit person
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He’s making a joke in referrence to the first response under the top comment. Not everything needs an /s
Clown clown Yes papa Committing war crimes No papa
