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As Denmark plans to make national service mandatory for young women, some say they are ready to 'send a signal to Russia'
Australian Broadcasting Corporation ^ | Tue 14 May 2024 | Kathryn Diss

Posted on 05/20/2024 7:57:31 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Bjørg Hjorth Nørgaard, 19, has not finished high school yet but has already enlisted to pay a duty to her country.

The young woman has volunteered for Denmark's four-month military training camp before university, fully aware that war has returned to Europe.

"It's a personal journey … I have signed up at my own free will," she said.

"It's no longer an argument that men fight wars, women do it as well now."

Young men in the country have for a long time been conscripted based on a lottery system.

If your number is called, it is compulsory to attend four months of basic military training, although others are welcome to join voluntarily, including women.

But Denmark's government is planning to make it gender-neutral, meaning 18-year-old women will be in the lottery too.

The time commitment for conscripts will also increase to 11 months so trainees can learn more combat skills.

"It has a more serious note now … and there's this more serious aspect of war in Europe that has an effect on all of us," Bjørg said.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: conscription; denmark; draft; kathryndiss; putin; putinbotinfestation; russia; serious; thedenmark; theputin; therussia
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1 posted on 05/20/2024 7:57:31 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

It used to be that using women in war was as signal that you had no men.


2 posted on 05/20/2024 7:58:49 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Ramping up for the next WW.


3 posted on 05/20/2024 7:59:36 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
"It's a personal journey … I have signed up at my own free will," she said.

War as a "personal journey."

How New Agey.

4 posted on 05/20/2024 8:00:46 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Women are LEADING THE CHARGE to get World War 3 going (think Victoria Nuland, for starters), so it makes sense to send them to the FRONT LINES to ‘teach those men a lesson’.


5 posted on 05/20/2024 8:00:51 PM PDT by BobL
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To: MinorityRepublican
some dumb say they are ready to 'send a signal to Russia'

fixed it

6 posted on 05/20/2024 8:01:47 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: Jonty30

“It used to be that using women in war was as signal that you had no men.”

I don’t know of any men left in Western and Central Europe. The closest is the whipped Metrosexuals.


7 posted on 05/20/2024 8:02:06 PM PDT by BobL
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To: Jonty30
It used to be that using women in war was a signal that you had no men.

As you suggest, I guess some things never change. . .

8 posted on 05/20/2024 8:02:25 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: BobL

Press-gang Vicky Nuland!


9 posted on 05/20/2024 8:02:38 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: BobL
I don’t know of any men left in Western and Central Europe.

They were wiped out in WWI and WWII.

But how do you explain USA and Canada?

10 posted on 05/20/2024 8:03:11 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Jonty30

What’s a woman?


11 posted on 05/20/2024 8:03:26 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Canada still had a functional military until Trudeau la Tapette got in there in the 1960’s.


12 posted on 05/20/2024 8:06:04 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Jonty30

Denmark has sent their entire artillery to Ukraine, so now they recruit the wimmins as a substitute.

https://www.businessinsider.com/denmark-to-send-all-artillery-ukraine-pm-russia-war-2024-2


13 posted on 05/20/2024 8:07:38 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Brainwashed cannon fodder for GloboHomo.


14 posted on 05/20/2024 8:08:05 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: MinorityRepublican

good.....shows just how pathetic our civilization has gotten when they need to draft young women....


15 posted on 05/20/2024 8:10:28 PM PDT by cherry
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Take THAT, Putin!!


16 posted on 05/20/2024 8:11:10 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Denmark Soldiers:


17 posted on 05/20/2024 8:11:51 PM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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They talk as if they are strengthening their military but I think they are weakening it by substituting women for men. By adding women to the lottery they are cutting the number of men in the military. They are adding to the numbers but what about combat effectiveness?


18 posted on 05/20/2024 8:13:32 PM PDT by Rdct29 (The Democrats Are The New Nazi Party )
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To: Candor7

That camo they are wearing blends well with the hedge in the background.


19 posted on 05/20/2024 8:15:37 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Rdct29
They are adding to the numbers but what about combat effectiveness?

It doesn't matter. The Poles and the Ukrainians are protecting Western Europe from the Russians.

20 posted on 05/20/2024 8:15:39 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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