Posted on 04/11/2024 5:56:16 AM PDT by McGruff
The roughly one million men who serve in Ukraine’s army are battered and exhausted. Many soldiers have been on combat duty for two years. Tens of thousands have been lost to death or serious injury. New recruits are desperately needed.
But Ukraine is running up against a critical demographic constraint long in the making: It has very few young men.
Healthy men under age 30, the backbone of most militaries, are part of the smallest generation in Ukraine’s modern history. Ukraine must balance the need to counter a relentless Russian offensive by adding more troops against the risk of hollowing out an entire generation.
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Seems to me it just became common last several years and it still isn’t right
Disappointing but true
Then seems to you wrong.
Not saying it’s right but it’s been common modern usage for our whole lives.
Catherine the Great Empress of All Russia visited Crimea in 1787 as part of her realm.
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