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Desperate for soldiers, Ukraine weighs unpopular plan to expand the draft
ABC News ^ | Feb 22, 2024 | SAMYA KULLAB and SUSIE BLANN

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: onetinsoldier; samyakullab; susieblann; tothelastukrainian
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To: McGruff

I thought they were already drafting everyone in ukraine. What are they going to do now, start drafting Americans.

OOPS, shouldn’t have suggested that.


21 posted on 02/22/2024 4:55:31 AM PST by farmguy ( IH8ny)
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To: farmguy

“What are they going to do now, start drafting Americans.”

A lady in front of me in the checkout line was violent in saying we MUST support Ukraine in every way possible. I was in a mean mood and told her that I hoped her grandsons will be sent there to the front lines. She ended the conversation. I truly believe our kids eventually will be sacrificed there to ensure the smooth money laundering operation to benefit the DC pols, especially the Biden Crime Family.


22 posted on 02/22/2024 4:59:02 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Fraud vitiates everything." - SCOTUS)
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To: MayflowerMadam
"I truly believe our kids eventually will be sacrificed there to ensure the smooth money laundering operation to benefit the DC pols, especially the Biden Crime Family."

"A new study from the Pentagon shows that 77% of young Americans would not qualify for military service without a waiver due to being overweight, using drugs or having mental and physical health problems."

(Maybe ICE can start rounding up illegals and, instead of taking them back to the border, take them to boot camp.)

23 posted on 02/22/2024 5:10:34 AM PST by Sooth2222 (“Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite.” /"Every nation has the government it deserves.” )
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To: Sooth2222

“... take them to boot camp.”

In ukraine


24 posted on 02/22/2024 5:23:08 AM PST by farmguy ( IH8ny)
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To: Jonty30

The children’s draft.

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Time to draft the toddlers .... if they can hold a pickleball racquet in TV commercials, they can certainly hold a gun. /s


25 posted on 02/22/2024 5:29:41 AM PST by Qiviut (If the genocide was unintentional, they would have pulled the poison vaccines, long ago.)
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To: McGruff

Not enough 155mm or ukies.

Shoulda sued for peace in early 2023.


26 posted on 02/22/2024 6:54:53 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Objective: Permanently break the will of the population to ever wage war again.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

I told a liberal war hawk I know, during a conversation about Ukraine, that hopefully he will get to send his son there. He was appalled.


27 posted on 02/22/2024 8:20:48 AM PST by girlangler (Fish Fear Me)
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To: girlangler

So, in other words, GMTA!


28 posted on 02/22/2024 9:05:03 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Fraud vitiates everything." - SCOTUS)
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To: MayflowerMadam; All

It’s time for Ukraine to stop asking the American taxpayers for Billions to keep their corrupt Ukraine Govt. afloat, and for Ukraine to sue for Peace with Russia.

If the EU wants to fund, on their own, a proxy war with their neighbor Russia, then that’s their call.


29 posted on 02/24/2024 7:42:21 AM PST by Texan4Life
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“It’s time for Ukraine to stop asking the American taxpayers for Billions to keep their corrupt Ukraine Govt. afloat”

That ship sailed a long time ago. The $ isn’t just to keep Ukraine afloat. It’s also to be laundered and returned to The Biden Crime Family, et al, in DC.


30 posted on 02/24/2024 8:28:17 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Fraud vitiates everything." - SCOTUS)
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