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Trump Admin: Ukraine Should Lower Draft Age From 26 to 18 If They Want Our Full Support
RCP ^ | 1/12/2025 | Tim Haines

Posted on 01/12/2025 1:09:01 PM PST by marcusmaximus

Donald Trump's incoming national security advisor Mike Waltz suggested during an interview on ABC's "This Week" that if Ukraine expects "the entire world to be all-in" on supporting them, they should lower their draft age from 26 to 18.

MIKE WALTZ: I will say, the other thing that we're going to need to see is really stabilizing things on the battlefield. And one of the things that we'll be asking of the Ukrainians is they have real manpower issues. Their draft age right now is 26 years old, not 18.

I don't think a lot of people realize that they could generate hundreds of thousands of new soldiers. So when we hear about morale problems, when we hear about issues on the frontline, look, if the Ukrainians have asked the entire world to be all in for democracy, we need them to be all in for democracy. And they certainly have fought bravely. They certainly have taken a very noble and tough stand. But we need to see those manpower shortages addressed. This isn't just about munitions, ammunition, or writing more checks. It's about seeing the frontlines stabilized, so that we can enter into some type of deal.

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To: ConservativeMind
we shouldn’t fund a dang thing for them.

We shouldn’t be funding this corrupt Kakistocracy anyways. Nor overthrowing their elections and putting our puppets in leadership
121 posted on 01/12/2025 3:24:37 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Williams

[Ukraine] should draft 18 year olds.”
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I agree.

When Trump sets a cease-fire, what’s to prevent Russia from indefinitely building reserves all along Ukraine’s border?

Ukraine needs to redouble its line of defenders.


122 posted on 01/12/2025 3:26:26 PM PST by Does so ("Climate Change" creates empty fire hydrants...🇺🇦...Dem☭¢rat...≣ ∅)
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To: heavy metal

They aren’t drafted to fight and be killed on the front lines.


123 posted on 01/12/2025 3:27:53 PM PST by alternatives?
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To: alternatives?

they should be for equality purposes...


124 posted on 01/12/2025 3:32:45 PM PST by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: heavy metal

Do you really want to replace male soldiers and marines with girls and the fate of our nation depend on that?


125 posted on 01/12/2025 3:35:13 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Does so
...this is not our fight...

No kidding - I'm not even OK with federal disaster funds for California without preconditions on water and forest management. And here we are shoveling billions of dollars to some country on the other side of the planet.
126 posted on 01/12/2025 3:36:09 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: TexasFreeper2009

i think Zelenskyy will be hard pressed to find any 18 years olds, myself.


127 posted on 01/12/2025 3:36:34 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: ansel12

negative...

just exposing freepers hypocrisy...


128 posted on 01/12/2025 3:40:05 PM PST by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: marcusmaximus
I absolutely KNOW that Trump isn't going to continue funding war.

Leader after leader in Europe that supported this failed proxy war has been voted out of office.

Trump knows there is no national interest in Ukraine and the war is solely being fought so our elite can make $$$. And, there is no chance he is going to all his domestic agenda to be derailed by it.

And, when this is over and Russia keeps every inch of the territory they possess, I will do the equivalent of rub your face between a pair of Biden's adult diapers.

You are a propagandist, sociopath and war pig.

129 posted on 01/12/2025 3:47:51 PM PST by Kazan
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To: marcusmaximus

They will also generate thousands of draft dodgers.


130 posted on 01/12/2025 3:48:49 PM PST by roving (Deplorable MAGA Garbage )
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To: Williams
I’ve said a hundred times I’ll support whatever Trump decides.

That comment will be remembered.

When he ends this and Russia keeps every bit of the territory it has gained, I don't want to see you whine about it.

131 posted on 01/12/2025 3:49:45 PM PST by Kazan
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To: bimboeruption
---- "The draft dodger now lives in Switerland creating 'direct from the front lines' videos of the war in his homeland, from the comfort and safety of his couch."

Some secondary information, which is not mere assertion.

Denys Davydov net worth $ 229K - $ 1.38M YouTubers....

$30.4K - $487K Estimated Yearly Earnings Social Blade....

My wife was reminding me of many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence beggared themselves and some lost their lives to FIGHT for their country. In their soon-to-be United States of America.

Davydov posts even now from Switzerland, this according to Google/YouTube's own published data..

132 posted on 01/12/2025 3:54:20 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: marcusmaximus

YouCrayne sets their goals low.
They should activate Offensive v.7
The other 6 didn’t work.
Why not try v.7


133 posted on 01/12/2025 4:06:54 PM PST by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: Williams

“I agree they should draft 18 year olds.”

Fight to the last Ukie Male.
Just do it without U.S. Taypayer Money


134 posted on 01/12/2025 4:10:03 PM PST by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: Does so; AnotherUnixGeek

>>>>...this is not our fight...
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Take another look...<<<<

What I’m looking at is the Ukrainian flag and the word “Democrat”, spelled with a commie hammer and sickle, in your tagline.

...🇺🇦...Dem☭¢rat...

Are you aware that FR is an American Conservative site?


135 posted on 01/12/2025 4:20:25 PM PST by bimboeruption ((“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023) )
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To: Kazan

I don’t give a frigg what you don’t want to hear.

I support Trump.

But as usual you obnoxiously tell others what’s going to happen.

Thank for the tip Nostradomus.


136 posted on 01/12/2025 4:26:52 PM PST by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: tennmountainman
When the active fighting began, it seemed there were more than two options. Those of us who held other than "Zelnesky is a saint" were accused of many things.

Here are logical alternatives, which were all there and expressed before the start of or at the beginning of the hot war.

1) Pro-Ukraine as well as pro-Zelensky. coupled to send money and materiel "as long as it takes."

2) Pro-Ukraine but anti-Zelensky, meaning other Ukrainian voices were valid even if opposed to Zelenksy.

3) Pro-Putin, though this stance is hardly documentable among FR threads.

4) Anti-war, meaning specifically this war. "Not my circus. Not my clowns."

5) Pragmatically concerned about the expenditure of money and materiel in a losing enterprise, rather like the recent Afghanistan debacle.

The avid pro-Zelensky voices, even to today, dismiss our national debt as a concern, dismiss lives lost and destruction because all favors 'whatever it takes" to topple Russia. In the case of more than one FR member, this included nuclear war. (Citation upon request.)

Any who'd lean towards any other view than rubber-stamping #1 have been accused of being "Putin stoogers" and similar inane variants. Of course, rancor has ensured.

Your "Just do it without [ U.S. ] Taypayer Money" is becoming a almost dominant voice in electorates here as in Europe, and our various "elite" are displeased with this turn of political events.

Given that we have learned of late that the Biden administration has paid millions for influencers, and given that Butler's argument is correct that "war is a racket," one wonders how long the current racket will continue. Not long is a good guess.

Best wishes.

137 posted on 01/12/2025 4:45:17 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Bookmarked


138 posted on 01/12/2025 5:14:21 PM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

You don’t even know Russia is not communist anymore.


139 posted on 01/12/2025 5:17:19 PM PST by navysealdad (http://drdavehouseoffun.com/)
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To: Williams

If they had some younger guys in there they might have won by now.


140 posted on 01/12/2025 5:28:13 PM PST by jocon307 (DEMOCRATS DELENDA EST)
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