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.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Look at it like this: given the extreme dissatisfaction that most Yooks have with the gay dancing grifter, given that since he arrived on the scene their country has been methodically dismantled; its infrastructure wrecked, its "economy" vaporized and hundreds of thousands of its young men killed and maimed - for nothing, they will absolutely howl if - on top of all that - he demands their 18 year old sons be sent to their deaths.
If he does call for 18 year olds, his smarmy, greasy head will end up on a platter, or he will be forced into fleeing in disgrace to somewhere in the EU where he will no doubt live in splendor, even as globalist carpetbaggers move in and gut what's left of his decrepit "nation."
The fake actor will not acquiesce to the fake trade Waltz has just (cough cough, ahem) presented to him. He just can't do it because it would vastly cut his chances for both political and personal survival.
Waltz's slick move is just a bitch slap to the Dancing Queen to bring him face to face with reality in prep for a quick settlement to the war.
Very soon it'll be game over for our grifting, Leather-Clad Actor Boy™.
The flow of our tax dollars to the little creep and the pigs he feeds will soon be snapped shut by Trump.
Trump has said he’d end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. He’d better not be backing off.
People like Biden, and Zelensky, and Putin, Pelosi, Schumer, Vindman, Bolton, Rodham-Clinton, and others should not be allowed to make or in any way support the implementation of policy that leads to the needless deaths of other people's young sons and daughters. F all of them. They and their children should be in the cross-hairs first, before asking anyone else to sacrifice for their idiocy.
I’ve said a hundred times I’ll support whatever Trump decides.
IF Trump may decide something you obnoxious Putin lovers dislike, suck on it.
You are a noxious group.
But keep stamping your baby feet.
I support Trump. If he ends the war tomorrow, he’ll have my support.
Agreed. Draw a line in the mud and agree to a ceasefire.
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Yes! End the butchery now.
They might want to start holding elections again before sending 18 year olds to die, prior to their being able to vote for the first time.
I can completely understand that.
Am I reading this right? They don’t draft people until they are 26 years old?
If so, that’s the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard in my life. Transwomen are real women makes more sense. Three lesbians running the LA Fire Dept. makes more sense. Joe Biden is smart makes more sense.
Excuse me, why criticize posting an article with a Trump quote?
Are you a Biden supporter?
I don’t care what Ukraine does or what Russia does. This is not our fight and I’m sick of seeing billions of taxpayer dollars used in funding it. Enough.
No one knows anything until Tulsi Gabbard erases narrative from intelligence.
Give it about a month.
All correct, meanwhile people here claimed Ukraine was drafting children out of orphanages.
And Russia drafts at 18.
> There is no chance the Russians will agree to freeze the conflict unless Ukraine concedes all annexed territory and NATO withdraws from Ukraine. <
All of that is possible. Let Russia keep the Ukrainian territory they now occupy. But they must pay for it in gold and oil. This would be not unlike the 1854 Gadsden Purchase. The US was going to take that territory, regardless.
Better to pay for it than just seize it by force.
NATO has no business being in Ukraine. No more than the USSR or the Warsaw Pact had in being in Cuba.
The trick is to get NATO out of Ukraine while at the same time keeping Russia from getting frisky, and grabbing more land. This will take a bit of cleverness. I think Trump will be up to it.
Maybe POTUS Trump needs to rethink this pick.
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I’m shocked that it’s not 18 already
So only men can drink?
You approve of every US male over 18 being drafted in war, but are against having the Ukrainians do anything with the most physically fit men until 26?
You have a bizarre masochism for US men, alone.
boo hoo you’re sick of the real world.
Bunch of cry babies.
Personally,I want Trump to end the war on day 1.
But it’s unlikely the president who wants Greenland to protect us from Russia, is going to hand Central Europe to Putin.
Fight to the last Ukie Male.
That will teach Pooty-Poo a Lesson. {SAR}
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