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Zelensky in bind over how to draft more troops as Russian forces advance
The Washington Post ^ | March 4, 2024 | Siobhán O'Grady, Serhii Korolchuk

Posted on 03/04/2024 8:02:04 AM PST by MinorityRepublican

Even as he promises international partners that Ukraine will handle the fighting if given needed weapons and other support, President Volodymyr Zelensky and his top military commanders have failed so far to come up with a clear plan to conscript or recruit many thousands of new soldiers critically needed to defend against Russia’s continuing attacks.

Zelensky’s inability to forge a political consensus on a mobilization strategy — despite months of warnings about a severe shortage of qualified troops on the front — has fueled deep divisions in Ukraine’s parliament and more broadly in Ukrainian society. It has left the military relying on a hodgepodge of recruiting efforts and sown panic among fighting-age men, some of whom have gone into hiding, worried that they will be drafted into an ill-equipped army and sent to certain death given that aid for Ukraine remains stalled in Washington. The quandary over how to fill the ranks has confronted Zelensky with perhaps the greatest challenge to his leadership since the start of the February 2022 invasion.

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TOPICS: Ukraine
KEYWORDS: globohomo; killkillkillforpeace; serhiikorolchuk; siobhanogrady; ukraine; zeeperfap; zeeperpr0n; zeepers; zeepersjustwannazeep; zeeperslovevindman
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1 posted on 03/04/2024 8:02:04 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Divert those military age men from Libya who are invading Italy and send them straight to the front lines. Promise them Ukrainian citizenship if they survive.


2 posted on 03/04/2024 8:04:15 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Cease Fire. Peace agreement.


3 posted on 03/04/2024 8:06:07 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Step one -draft old people
Step two-draft really young people
Step three Nato “peacekeepers”
Step 4 - US military


4 posted on 03/04/2024 8:06:34 AM PST by MrRelevant
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To: MinorityRepublican

Girl units are being formed.

Ukrainian girls are dying on the front line now.

After that, it will be the 13-17 year olds.


5 posted on 03/04/2024 8:07:52 AM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: MinorityRepublican

“...as Russian forces advance...”

do any of the reports say how far the Russian forces are from Kiev????


6 posted on 03/04/2024 8:08:05 AM PST by elpadre
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To: MinorityRepublican
Russia has been advancing since Crimea....
7 posted on 03/04/2024 8:09:17 AM PST by wardamneagle
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How long would it take to fly a certain 10 million people from the US to Kiev?


8 posted on 03/04/2024 8:10:06 AM PST by know.your.why (<>)
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..sent to certain death given that aid for Ukraine remains stalled in Washington.

It's all our fault. Not

9 posted on 03/04/2024 8:11:27 AM PST by chief lee runamok ( Le Flâneur @Large)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Bookmark


10 posted on 03/04/2024 8:12:10 AM PST by kabar
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To: MinorityRepublican

Has he cleaned out the prisons yet?................


11 posted on 03/04/2024 8:13:15 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: MinorityRepublican
The end is near

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12 posted on 03/04/2024 8:16:43 AM PST by CapandBall
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I see Poland inserting troops on the ground despite any language barriers.


13 posted on 03/04/2024 8:16:51 AM PST by DownInFlames (p)
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It has left the military relying on a hodgepodge of recruiting efforts

Hodgepodge = kidnapping men off the streets.

14 posted on 03/04/2024 8:20:33 AM PST by PGR88
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Royal Navy used Press Gangs


15 posted on 03/04/2024 8:25:28 AM PST by MuttTheHoople ( "Never thot I'd live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones"-Johnny Rotten)
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To: BenLurkin

That would be an interesting discussion to have. I am not sure if it would help but the chaos would be brought to a new level.


16 posted on 03/04/2024 8:26:39 AM PST by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Come to the Southern border of the U.S. Plenty of military-age males there with nothing to do.


17 posted on 03/04/2024 8:27:21 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: BenLurkin

Not to take away any satire in your post but how many refugees/illegal aliens/border crossers WOULD actually take up such and offer; perhaps if it came with their families being allowed to stay in Ukraine and receive some level of support while they fight and a benefit if they die fighting? Enough to fill the ranks and turn the demographics from losing to a more true stalemate? A better place to negotiate a settlement from?


18 posted on 03/04/2024 8:31:03 AM PST by desertsolitaire
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Ukraine was losing ~30,000 a month during their counteroffensive.

To put that into perspective a nation of 41 million lost more men in 3 months than we (240 million population back then) did in 6-7 years in Vietnam.

It’s not a lack of weapons, we and the Europeans supplied them ample. They have just been getting killed in vast numbers, unreported in the West, and many of the folks in Ukraine know the truth and don’t want to die.

Ukraine is now at a point where they are running out of warm bodies and not everyone is jumping up volunteering to be cannon fodder for us. Not everyone even agrees with this war, which may sound ridiculous in a world where all we have heard are stories about Ukrainian victories, sovereignty and democracy... But no one even asks how Mr Z came to power, who really backed and installed this guy? Was is really necessary to expand NATO into Ukraine the way we did?


19 posted on 03/04/2024 8:32:06 AM PST by Red6
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Z could try inspiring his troops by leading the charge on the front line like George Washington except all coked up and wealthy from graft.


20 posted on 03/04/2024 8:33:03 AM PST by Manic_Episode (A government of the government, by the government, for the government)
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