Posted on 02/21/2024 10:32:53 PM PST by McGruff
When the Russian army mounted a full-scale invasion two years ago, Ukrainian men zealously rushed to recruitment centers across the country to enlist, ready to die in defense of their nation.
Today, with Russia in control of roughly one-quarter of Ukraine and the two armies virtually deadlocked along a 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line, that spirit to enlist has faded: Many Ukrainian men are evading the draft by hiding at home or trying to bribe their way out of the battle.
Along the frigid and muddy front line, commanders say their army is too small and made up of too many exhausted and wounded soldiers. As the war enters its third year, the most urgent and politically sensitive challenge pressing on Ukraine is whether it can muster enough new soldiers to repel an enemy with far more fighters at its disposal.
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The children’s draft.
Wonder if they’ll collect a certain “warzone commenter” from his “ringside sear” in Luzern.
They are sending 55-58 year old people to front line service ?
That is crazy
It is over Zelensky. End it.
Kill every man, woman, child in UKR.
Because why not.
Globalists are some sick puppies.
>> It is over Zelensky. End it.
“Not before I spend all this $$$ !!!”
“commanders say their army is too small “
That’s called losing ...
Descriptions: full scale invasion. Clearly not. Only 300,000 out of a total 15 million Russian Reservists were mobilized. This is not “full scale”.
What does deadlocked mean? At this point I don’t think anyone still imagines casualty ratios to be sufficiently Ukraine dominant to compensate for the overwhelming population differential. How can losing an enormously larger proportion of your population vs Russia be called deadlocked?
When munitions achieved the sort of ranges possible today, territory lost its battle significance. All that measures success in battle now is how many you kill or incapacitate.
Biden and his allies do not want the war over yet, there is still more money to make. Plenty of Ukrainians to service canon fodder.
(The children’s draft.)
That’s what Hitler did knowing defeat was imminent.
Hitler did it because he was a madman. Zelenskyy is doing it because he wants to. That’s a worse evil, I think. Sending people to die in a war that he knows full well that there would be few survivors and still not win the war.
That’s why no elections. i think they know their people want peace.
Sounds like the Ukrainian leadership is in turmoil. Wasn’t General Zaluzhnyi just canned for pushing to increase the draft? That was my impression, but maybe there was more to it than that.
It’s not a deadlock it’s a slow grind that Russia is slowly but inevitably winning. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen sustained Ukrainian gains.
Correct
Russia is making small gains daily now
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This video describes the military situation in Ukraine on the 22nd of February 2024
Russia has (had) a population of about 142 million. Ukraine has (had) a population of about 43 million.
With a 1:1 loss exchange ratio Ukraine will run out of Ukrainians before Russia will run out of Russians.
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