Putin loves to cite history, including Czarist Imperial history of Russia, to justify his invasion of Ukraine. Perhaps he should have read up a bit on the Vietnam war when he would have learned the lesson that history taught to presidents Johnson and Nixon: make university students serve at your peril.
When our college boys saw they might actually have to go to Vietnam, they took to the streets and burned their draft cards. They suddenly found an acute sensitivity to war and found a devout pacifism.
I doubt Russian students and their mothers are any different than American students and mothers. They all are, after all, "special."
