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Ukraine's military is 980,000 soldiers strong, Zelensky says (kyivindependent.com)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (16 children)

Ukraine lowered the mobilization age from 27 to 25 in April 2024 but resisted the international partners' calls to further lower it to 18.

I always thought 18 seemed low, seems to me like an attempt to get them young and naive, and easier to mold.
21 should be the earliest IMO.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (9 children)

@Buffalox @Cephalotrocity conscription is immoral. If a cause is right and just you should be able to find volunteers. If you can't find volunteers perhaps you should rethink your mission.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Your premise is flawed:

  • A cause can be right and just and people still not want to volunteer.
  • Ukraine's cause is right and just and they do have volunteers, just not as many as would be ideal,
  • Conscription is not immoral if it serves the greater Good, and in this case it absolutely does.

If your reasoning is that flawed you should rethink your allegiance to cowardice or russia, or both.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@Cephalotrocity you are incorrect. The market has decided that it is not right nor just or they would have volunteers. Russia also is not right nor just. War is a racket.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Says a lot that you use the market to decide what is right or just.

Edit: and they do have volunteers. For example, this is just for international volunteers

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