Oh my...that’s never happened in the U.S. before has it? Oh wait...the Vietnam War.
So, is someone suggesting the Russian Elite are IMITATING the American Elite when it comes to “their” children NOT being used as cannon fodder???? Yep, Vietnam comes to mind.
Vietnam was the norm for the North East American elite.
Elite draft dodging goes back to the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, right thru to Vietnam.
—” Oh wait...the Vietnam War.”
Yes, many but not all.
I served with one who didn’t keep up with his classwork and ended up in RVN.
His business card said:
J.Smith
San Francisco, Oahu
Company name
A good guy, did his year, and went home.
His father was a real estate tycoon and they had houses in both cities.
It goes all the way back to the Civil War.
The Civil War, too.